{"id":2154,"date":"2007-03-12T00:25:09","date_gmt":"2007-03-12T05:25:09","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-03-12T00:25:09","modified_gmt":"2007-03-12T05:25:09","slug":"successful-ariane-5-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=2154","title":{"rendered":"Successful  Ariane 5 Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arianespace initiated its busy 2007 launch schedule with a dual-payload success this evening (March 11) that placed the Skynet 5A and INSAT 4B satellites into accurate geostationary transfer orbit.<\/p>\n<p>The heavy-lift Ariane 5 departed Europe&#8217;s Spaceport at 7:03 p.m. local time in French Guiana and deployed Skynet 5A at 26 minutes into the mission, followed four minutes later by INSAT 4B.<\/p>\n<p>Arianespace has targeted six Ariane 5 missions in 2007, with the next flight planned for early May with the Astra 1L and Galaxy 17 satellites.  Also scheduled for May is a launch by Arianespace&#8217;s Starsem affiliate, which will utilize a Soyuz vehicle to orbit four Globalstar satellites from Baikonur Cosmodrome.<\/p>\n<p>See Arianespace&#8217;s Website for full details on this new Ariane 5 success:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.arianespace.com\"   target=\"_blank\"  >  www.arianespace.com  <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arianespace initiated its busy 2007 launch schedule with a dual-payload success this evening (March 11) that placed the Skynet 5A and INSAT 4B satellites into accurate geostationary transfer orbit. The&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Arianespace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}