Breaking News: GSAT-16 will be launched on december
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16-09-2014, 11:27 PM
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GSAT-16 will be launched on december
GSAT-16 will be launched on december 6 National space agency ISRO has decided to launch one of its upcoming communication satellites, GSAT-16, six months earlier than planned. The 3,100-kg spacecraft, meant to support public and private television and radio services, large-scale Internet and telephone operations, was originally planned to be flown up around June 2015 on a European Ariane-5 launcher. The decision to advance GSAT-16 launch came after the older INSAT-3E expired in March this year, according to ISRO Chairman K. Radhakrishnan. The plan to move an ISRO mission ahead is almost unprecedented. “GSAT-16 will replace INSAT-3E [in the same space orbit at 55 degrees East longitude]. It was planned to be launched in the middle of 2015. After 3E was decommissioned in April, we advanced GSAT-16, which will now go in December this year,” he told The Hindu recently. The assembly venue in Bangalore, the ISRO Satellite Centre or ISAC, is ready with the spacecraft. “Advancing a satellite by five to six months is a difficult job, but we did it. We also got a slot from Arianespace (launch company) and as of now, we are talking of a launch (around) December 6,” he said. An earliest launch would otherwise have been April 2015. GSAT-16 will offer 24 transponders in the C-band, 12 in the extended C-band and another 12 in the Ku band. |
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