India's Communication Satellite Gsat-24 All Set For Launch On Ariane-5 Rocket Tomorrow
C hennai: GSAT-24 , the 4,180 kg India's 24-Ku band communication satellite, will be launched by European Space Agency's (ESA) Arian Rocket from Kourou in French Guiana tomorrow. The satellite, with pan India coverage for meeting DTH application needs, will be launched along with a Malaysian communication satellite MEASAT-3d by Ariane-V VA257 flight tomorrow morning, ESA's Arianespace said. Arianespace’s second launch of 2022 with the first Ariane-5 of the year will place its satellite passengers into Geostationary Transfer Orbit.…
Gsat-14 enters its orbital home
India's 23rd geostationary communication satellite, Gsat-14, entered its orbital home at 8am on Thursday. The third orbit-raising manoeuvre was successfully executed with a 172-second firing from Isro's Master Control Facility at Hasan in Karnataka. With this, the spacecraft's nearest point to the earth, or perigee, is 35,462km and the farthest, or apogee, is 35,741km. After it entered its final orbital home, the cuboid-shaped spacecraft's east antenna was deployed at 9.18am and the west antenna at 11.30am An Isro offi…
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