{"id":18347,"date":"2018-09-25T19:40:43","date_gmt":"2018-09-25T11:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/100th-launch-of-europes-ariane-5-rocket-sends-a-pair-of-telecom-satellites-into-orbit\/"},"modified":"2018-09-25T19:40:43","modified_gmt":"2018-09-25T11:40:43","slug":"100th-launch-of-europes-ariane-5-rocket-sends-a-pair-of-telecom-satellites-into-orbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/100th-launch-of-europes-ariane-5-rocket-sends-a-pair-of-telecom-satellites-into-orbit\/","title":{"rendered":"100th launch of Europe\u2019s Ariane 5 rocket sends a pair of telecom satellites into orbit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>News Brief:<\/strong> The milestone 100th launch of Europe\u2019s heavy-lift Ariane 5 rocket put two telecommunications satellites into geostationary transfer orbit today. The rocket rose from Arianespace\u2019s launch site in Kourou, French Guiana, at 7:38 p.m. local time (3:38 p.m. PT), after a 45-minute delay. The dual payloads were the Boeing-built Horizons-3e satellite, which will provide telecom coverage for Intelsat and Japan\u2019s SKY Perfect JSAT in the Asia-Pacific region; and Azerspace-2\/Intelsat-38, built by Maxar\/SSL to boost communications coverage in Europe, Asia and Africa for Azercosmos and Intelsat. In addition to the Ariane 5 milestone, today\u2019s launch marked the 300th mission for the Arianespace family of rockets.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Ariane 5 ECA launches Horizons 3e &amp; Azerspace-2\/Intelsat 38 satellites\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/d0QvVz_ft2s?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen=\"\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\" data-width=\"800\" data-height=\"450\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px; width: 800px; height: 450px;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News Brief: The milestone 100th launch of Europe\u2019s heavy-lift Ariane 5 rocket put two telecommunications satellites into geostationary transfer orbit today. The rocket rose from Arianespace\u2019s launch site in Kourou, French Guiana, at 7:38 p.m. local time (3:38 p.m. PT), after a 45-minute delay. The dual payloads were the Boeing-built Horizons-3e satellite, which will provide [&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":[1540,498,2798,20],"class_list":["post-18347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-ariane-5","tag-arianespace","tag-french-guiana","tag-satellite"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18347"}],"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=18347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}