{"id":306605,"date":"2018-12-05T05:52:54","date_gmt":"2018-12-05T05:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=306605"},"modified":"2018-12-05T05:56:05","modified_gmt":"2018-12-05T05:56:05","slug":"isro-successfully-launches-indias-most-powerful-gsat-11-satellite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/isro-successfully-launches-indias-most-powerful-gsat-11-satellite\/","title":{"rendered":"ISRO successfully launches India\u2019s most powerful GSAT-11 satellite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-306608 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/ISRO-1-300x189.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"309\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/ISRO-1-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/ISRO-1.jpg 522w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 490px) 100vw, 490px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Indian Space Research Organization\u2019s (ISRO) GSAT-11 satellite also called the &#8220;Big Bird&#8221; was successfully launched into space today from the French Guiana, in South America.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Indian space agency said, &#8220;ISRO&#8217;s heaviest and most-advanced high throughput communication satellite GSAT-11 was successfully launched from the Spaceport in French Guiana during the early hours today.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">India&#8217;s most powerful satellite GSAT-11, weighing 5,854 kg, would boost broadband services in the country and will help provide satellite-based internet to remote places where cable-based internet cannot reach bridging the rural and urban divide. The satellite is the heaviest Indian-made equipment that the agency put into its orbit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">ISRO Chief Dr. K Sivan said, &#8220;GSAT-11 is the next generation high throughput communication satellite that will play a vital role in providing broadband services across the country. It will also provide a platform to demonstrate new generation applications.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The GSAT-11 satellite has cost about Rs. 600 crore and is equivalent to the combined power of almost all communications satellites sent into orbit by India. It is expected to have a lifespan of 15 years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">This launch was the second attempt after ISRO&#8217;s first bid failed in May earlier this year.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian Space Research Organization\u2019s (ISRO) GSAT-11 satellite also called the &#8220;Big Bird&#8221; was successfully launched into space today from the French Guiana, in South America. The Indian space agency said, &#8220;ISRO&#8217;s heaviest and most-advanced high throughput communication satellite GSAT-11 was successfully launched from the Spaceport in French Guiana during the early hours today.&#8221; India&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":306608,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[10091,974],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306605"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306605"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306610,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306605\/revisions\/306610"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/306608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}