{"id":946,"date":"2010-05-22T13:10:27","date_gmt":"2010-05-22T17:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.orbitalhub.com\/?p=946"},"modified":"2010-05-22T13:10:27","modified_gmt":"2010-05-22T17:10:27","slug":"astra-3b-and-comsatbw-2-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/?p=946","title":{"rendered":"ASTRA 3B and COMSATBw-2 Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: left; padding-right: 30px;\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 5px;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 5px;\"><object width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/tSpujejB1pA&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/tSpujejB1pA&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 5px;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On May 21, 2010, an Ariane 5 launch vehicle placed two communication satellites into geostationary transfer orbit: ASTRA 3B, a commercial communication satellite for the SES ASTRA operator, and COMSATBw-2, a military communication satellite for the German Ministry of Defense. This was the first flight of Ariane 5 in 2010.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.arianespace.com\/\">Read more about Arianespace&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 5px;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On May 21, 2010, an Ariane 5 launch vehicle placed two communication satellites into geostationary transfer orbit: ASTRA 3B, a commercial communication satellite for the SES ASTRA operator, and COMSATBw-2, a military communication satellite for the German Ministry of Defense. This was the first flight of Ariane 5 in 2010.<a target=_blank href=http:\/\/www.arianespace.com\/>Read more about Ar&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[463],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}