{"id":6176,"date":"2015-11-16T07:10:35","date_gmt":"2015-11-16T07:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=6176"},"modified":"2015-11-16T07:10:35","modified_gmt":"2015-11-16T07:10:35","slug":"indias-communication-satellite-launched-successfully","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/indias-communication-satellite-launched-successfully\/","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s Communication Satellite Launched Successfully"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Question: Recently which Indian Communication satellite was launched successfully\u00a0<\/strong><strong>from French Guiana on 11 November 2015?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">(a) GSAT-16<br \/>\n(b) GSAT-14<br \/>\n(c) GSAT-10<br \/>\n(d) GSAT-15<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Ans (d)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Related facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>GSAT-15, India\u2019s communication\u00a0satellite, was launched successfully by the European Ariane 5 VA-227 launch Vehicle on November 11, 2015.<\/li>\n<li>GSAT-15 carries communication transponders in Ku-band as well as a GPS Aided GEO Augmented Navigation (GAGAN) payload operating in L1 and L5 bands.<\/li>\n<li>The 3,164-kg spacecraft will replace the ageing Insat-3A and 4B spacecraft that are in the same orbital slot when they expire.<\/li>\n<li>After a flight of \u00a043 minutes and 24 seconds, GSAT-15 separated from the Ariane 5 upper stage in an elliptical Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit (GTO)<\/li>\n<li>Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit (GTO) will have a perigee (nearest point to Earth) of 250 km and an apogee (farthest point to Earth) of 35,819 km, inclined at an angle of 3.9 degree to the equator.<\/li>\n<li>ISRO&#8217;s Master Control Facility (MCF) at Hassan in Karnataka took over the command and control of GSAT-15 immediately after its separation from the launch vehicle.<\/li>\n<li>It carries a suite of 24 transponders used mainly VSAT (VSAT) operators and will help in Direct-to-Home (DTH) broadcasting.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Reference:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.isro.gov.in\/update\/11-nov-2015\/indias-gsat-15-communication-satellite-launched-successfully\">http:\/\/www.isro.gov.in\/update\/11-nov-2015\/indias-gsat-15-communication-satellite-launched-successfully<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.isro.gov.in\/Spacecraft\/gsat-15\">http:\/\/www.isro.gov.in\/Spacecraft\/gsat-15<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Recently which Indian Communication satellite was launched successfully\u00a0from French Guiana on 11 November 2015? (a) GSAT-16 (b) GSAT-14 (c) GSAT-10 (d) GSAT-15 Ans (d) Related facts: GSAT-15, India\u2019s communication\u00a0satellite, was launched successfully by the European Ariane 5 VA-227 launch Vehicle on November 11, 2015. GSAT-15 carries communication transponders in Ku-band as well as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6157,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1131],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dssn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6176","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6176\/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\/6157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6176"}],"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=6176"},{"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=6176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}