{"id":27777,"date":"2017-06-30T19:23:37","date_gmt":"2017-06-30T19:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=27777"},"modified":"2017-06-30T19:23:37","modified_gmt":"2017-06-30T19:23:37","slug":"communication-satellite-gsat-17-launched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/communication-satellite-gsat-17-launched\/","title":{"rendered":"Communication satellite GSAT-17 launched"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Question: The latest communication satellite of India, launched on June 29, 2017 by European Ariane 5 Launch Vehicle from Kourou, French Guiana, is \u2026<\/strong><br \/>\n(a) GSAT-15<br \/>\n(b) GSAT-17<br \/>\n(c) GSAT-19<br \/>\n(d) GSAT-16<br \/>\n<strong>Answer- (b)<br \/>\nRelated facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>On June 29, 2017, India&#8217;s latest communication satellite, GSAT-17 was launched using the European Ariane 5 Launch Vehicle from Kourou, French Guiana.<\/li>\n<li>The 3477 kg GSAT-17 carries communication payloads in C-band, Extended C-band and S-band for providing various services to the country. The satellite also carries equipment for meteorological data relay and satellite based search and rescue services.<\/li>\n<li>ISRO&#8217;s Master Control Facility (MCF) at Hassan in Karnataka took over the command and control of GSAT-17 immediately after its separation from the launch vehicle.<\/li>\n<li>The GSAT series of geosynchronous satellites is a system developed by the Indian Space Research Organisation(ISRO) with an objective to make the country self-reliant in broadcasting services.<\/li>\n<li>Significantly, with the successful launch of GSAT-17, India successfully launched the third communication satellite in the last two months.<\/li>\n<li>The designed in-orbit operational life of GSAT-17 is about 15 years.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Reference: <\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.isro.gov.in\/gsat-17\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.isro.gov.in\/gsat-17<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.isro.gov.in\/update\/29-jun-2017\/indias-gsat-17-communication-satellite-launched-successfully\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.isro.gov.in\/update\/29-jun-2017\/indias-gsat-17-communication-satellite-launched-successfully<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.isro.gov.in\/Spacecraft\/gsat-17\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.isro.gov.in\/Spacecraft\/gsat-17<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: The latest communication satellite of India, launched on June 29, 2017 by European Ariane 5 Launch Vehicle from Kourou, French Guiana, is \u2026 (a) GSAT-15 (b) GSAT-17 (c) GSAT-19 (d) GSAT-16 Answer- (b) Related facts: On June 29, 2017, India&#8217;s latest communication satellite, GSAT-17 was launched using the European Ariane 5 Launch Vehicle from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":27719,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1131],"tags":[2377],"class_list":["post-27777","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\/27777","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27777\/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\/27719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27777"}],"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=27777"},{"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=27777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}