{"id":16708,"date":"2014-12-29T21:20:37","date_gmt":"2014-12-29T13:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/photos-proton-lifts-off-with-tv-broadcasting-satellite\/"},"modified":"2014-12-29T21:20:37","modified_gmt":"2014-12-29T13:20:37","slug":"photos-proton-lifts-off-with-tv-broadcasting-satellite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/photos-proton-lifts-off-with-tv-broadcasting-satellite\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos: Proton lifts off with TV broadcasting satellite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Firing into space from the historic Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, a Russian Proton rocket guided a European television broadcast satellite into orbit Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The 191-foot-tall rocket, fueled by a mixture of hydrazine and nitrogen tetroxide propellants, blasted off at 2137 GMT (4:37 p.m. EST) Saturday with the Astra 2G communications satellite owned by SES of Luxmebourg.<\/p>\n<p>Liftoff occurred at 3:37 a.m. local time at the Baikonur Cosmodrome.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2526\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2526\" style=\"width: 621px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2526\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/astra2g_01.jpg\" alt=\"Photo credit: Roscosmos\" width=\"621\" height=\"414\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/astra2g_01.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/astra2g_01-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/astra2g_01-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/astra2g_01-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 621px) 100vw, 621px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2526\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: Roscosmos<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2528\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2528\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2528\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/astra2g_03.jpg\" alt=\"Photo credit: Roscosmos\" width=\"620\" height=\"930\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/astra2g_03.jpg 1067w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/astra2g_03-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/astra2g_03-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/astra2g_03-683x1024.jpg 683w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2528\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: Roscosmos<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2527\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2527\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2527\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/astra2g_02.jpg\" alt=\"Photo credit: Roscosmos\" width=\"620\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/astra2g_02.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/astra2g_02-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/astra2g_02-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/astra2g_02-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2527\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: Roscosmos<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2529\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2529\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2529\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/astra2g_04.jpg\" alt=\"Photo credit: Roscosmos\" width=\"620\" height=\"930\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/astra2g_04.jpg 1067w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/astra2g_04-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/astra2g_04-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/astra2g_04-683x1024.jpg 683w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2529\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: Roscosmos<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2530\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2530\" style=\"width: 621px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2530\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/astra2g_05.jpg\" alt=\"Photo credit: Roscosmos\" width=\"621\" height=\"931\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/astra2g_05.jpg 1067w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/astra2g_05-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/astra2g_05-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/astra2g_05-683x1024.jpg 683w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 621px) 100vw, 621px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2530\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: Roscosmos<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><b><i>Follow Stephen Clark on Twitter: @StephenClark1.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Firing into space from the historic Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, a Russian Proton rocket guided a European television broadcast satellite into orbit Saturday. The 191-foot-tall rocket, fueled by a mixture of hydrazine and nitrogen tetroxide propellants, blasted off at 2137 GMT (4:37 p.m. EST) Saturday with the Astra 2G communications satellite owned by SES of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4193,1601,1968,2646,1969,2110,1043,1611],"class_list":["post-16708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-astra-2g","tag-baikonur-cosmodrome","tag-breeze-m","tag-international-launch-services","tag-khrunichev","tag-proton","tag-ses","tag-telecom"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16708"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}