{"id":318960,"date":"2020-01-17T02:47:07","date_gmt":"2020-01-17T02:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=318960"},"modified":"2020-01-17T02:47:07","modified_gmt":"2020-01-17T02:47:07","slug":"isros-gsat-30-satellite-successfully-launched-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/isros-gsat-30-satellite-successfully-launched-today\/","title":{"rendered":"ISRO&#8217;s GSAT-30 Satellite successfully launched today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-318961 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/isro.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"627\" height=\"528\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/01\/isro.jpg 627w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/01\/isro-300x253.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/01\/isro-499x420.jpg 499w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 627px) 100vw, 627px\" \/>India\u2019s high-power communication satellite GSAT 30 was on Friday launched onboard Ariane 5 rocket from French Guiana in the early hours of Friday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">India\u2019s telecommunication satellite GSAT-30 was successfully launched into a Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit (GTO) on January 17, 2020 from Kourou launch base, French Guiana by Ariane-5 VA-251, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Arianespace CEO St\u00e9phane Isra\u00ebl confirmed the successful launch in a tweet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He said, \u201cA strong start to 2020 as #Ariane5 successfully deploys its two satellite passengers \u2013 EUTELSAT KONNECT and GSAT-30 \u2013 into geostationary transfer orbit! I appreciate the trust from the two customers on this mission: @Eutelsat_SA and @ISRO #VA251 #MissiontoSuccess.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cFlight #VA251 marked another #Arianespace success for @ISRO, with a total of 24 spacecraft orbited for #India\u2019s space agency. Thanks for your continued confidence on today\u2019s #MissiontoSuccess,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">GSAT-30 is configured on ISRO\u2019s enhanced I-3K Bus structure to provide communication services from Geostationary orbit in C and Ku bands. The satellite derives its heritage from ISRO\u2019s earlier INSAT\/GSAT satellite series, the ISRO statement said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Weighing 3357 kg, GSAT-30 is to serve as replacement to INSAT-4A spacecraft services with enhanced coverage.\u00a0 The satellite provides Indian mainland and islands coverage in Ku-band and extended coverage in C-band covering Gulf countries, a large number of Asian countries and Australia, it said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The designed in-orbit operational life of GSAT-30 is more than 15 years, it added.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s high-power communication satellite GSAT 30 was on Friday launched onboard Ariane 5 rocket from French Guiana in the early hours of Friday. India\u2019s telecommunication satellite GSAT-30 was successfully launched into a Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit (GTO) on January 17, 2020 from Kourou launch base, French Guiana by Ariane-5 VA-251, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":318961,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[12406,974],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318960"}],"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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318960"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":318962,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318960\/revisions\/318962"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/318961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}