{"id":12818,"date":"2016-06-25T07:58:15","date_gmt":"2016-06-25T07:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=12818"},"modified":"2016-06-25T07:58:15","modified_gmt":"2016-06-25T07:58:15","slug":"two-commercial-satellites-launched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/two-commercial-satellites-launched\/","title":{"rendered":"Two commercial satellites are launched"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Question: Name the company which has launched two commercial communications satellites, Eutelsat 117 West B and ABS-2A successfully in Geosynchronous Transfer Orbits (GTO).<\/strong><br \/>\n(a) Space X<br \/>\n(b) NASA<br \/>\n(c) ISRO<br \/>\n(d) None of the above<br \/>\n<strong>Ans:(a)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Related facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<li>On 15 June 2016 SpaceX, an American aerospace manufacturer and space transport services company has successfully delivered two commercial communications satellites, Eutelsat 117 West B and ABS-2A, to their targeted Geosynchronous Transfer Orbits (GTO).<\/li>\n<li>The satellite were launched using SpaceX\u2019s Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida.<\/li>\n<li>The two satellites, EUTELSAT 117 West B and ABS-2A, are operated respectively by Eutelsat and ABS \u2013 two companies that provide global communications services to a variety of users.<\/li>\n<li>The two satellites are delivered to Geostationary Transfer Orbits (GTO).<\/li>\n<li>While returning the reusable rocket was destroyed just before landing on floating barge in the Atlantic Ocean.<\/li>\n<li>Falcon 9 is a family of two-stage-to-orbit launch vehicle both stages are powered by rocket engines that burn liquid oxygen (LOX) and rocket-grade kerosene (RP-1) propellants.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<strong>Reference:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.spacex.com\/news\/2016\/06\/15\/eutelsatabs-mission-photos\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.spacex.com\/news\/2016\/06\/15\/eutelsatabs-mission-photos<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.spacex.com\/sites\/spacex\/files\/spacex_eutelsat_abs_press_kit.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.spacex.com\/sites\/spacex\/files\/spacex_eutelsat_abs_press_kit.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Name the company which has launched two commercial communications satellites, Eutelsat 117 West B and ABS-2A successfully in Geosynchronous Transfer Orbits (GTO). (a) Space X (b) NASA (c) ISRO (d) None of the above Ans:(a) Related facts: On 15 June 2016 SpaceX, an American aerospace manufacturer and space transport services company has successfully delivered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12734,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1131],"tags":[2377],"class_list":["post-12818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dssn","tag-defensescience-short-notes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}