{"id":62894,"date":"2018-12-10T13:58:39","date_gmt":"2018-12-10T13:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=62894"},"modified":"2018-12-10T13:59:45","modified_gmt":"2018-12-10T13:59:45","slug":"isros-satellite-gsat-11-launched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/isros-satellite-gsat-11-launched\/","title":{"rendered":"ISRO`s Satellite GSAT-11 Launched"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Question: GSAT-11, heaviest satellite of ISRO is launched from?<\/strong><br>(a) Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Shriharikota<br>(b) Spaceport, French Guiana<br>(c) Baikonur Cosmodrom, Kazakhstan<br>(d) Mojave Air and Space Port, California<br><strong>Answer: (b)<br>Related facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>\u2022    GSAT-11 ISRO<code>s heaviest (5854 kg) and most-advanced high throughput communication satellite was successfully launched from Spaceport (Kourou Launch Base) in French Guiana. It is nicknamed as \u2018Big Bird\u2019.<\/code><\/li><li><code>GSAT-11 will boost the broadband connectivity to rural and inaccessible Gram Panchayats in the country coming under the Bharat Net Project, which is part of Digital India Programme. <\/code><\/li><li><code>This is next generation satellite with multi-spot beam which will cover the whole territory of India.<\/code><\/li><li><code>The 5854-kg GSAT-11 will provide high data rate connectivity to users of Indian mainland and islands through 32 user beams in Ku-band and 8 hub beams in Ka-band.<\/code><\/li><li><code>The throughout data rate is 16 Gigabits per second with 15 years Mission Life. The project cost was around 600 crores and was ISRO<\/code>s second bid to launch as first launch failed in May this year.<\/li><li><strong>About Ka band \/Ku band:<\/strong><\/li><li>The band refers to the radio frequencies which are used to and from the satellite launched.<\/li><li>Ka-band: Ka stands for \u201ckurz-above\u201d which stems from the German word \u201ckurz\u201d meaning short. It uses frequency between 26.5-40 gigahertz (GHz) of the electromagnetic spectrum.<\/li><li>Ku-band:  It stands for \u201cKurz untern\u201d. It uses frequency between 12-18 gigahertz (GHZ) approximately. It is the lower part of NATO K band, which was split into 3 bands (Ku, K and Ka). It is used for editing and broadcasting satellite television.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Links:<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.isro.gov.in\/update\/05-dec-2018\/india%E2%80%99s-heaviest-communication-satellite-gsat-11-launched-successfully-french\">https:\/\/www.isro.gov.in\/update\/05-dec-2018\/india%E2%80%99s-heaviest-communication-satellite-gsat-11-launched-successfully-french<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/india-news\/indias-heaviest-most-powerful-satellite-gsat-11-the-big-bird-launched-successfully-from-french-guian-1957931\">https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/india-news\/indias-heaviest-most-powerful-satellite-gsat-11-the-big-bird-launched-successfully-from-french-guian-1957931<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.getconnected.aero\/2017\/09\/lkuka-band-satellites-mean\/\">https:\/\/www.getconnected.aero\/2017\/09\/lkuka-band-satellites-mean\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: GSAT-11, heaviest satellite of ISRO is launched from?(a) Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Shriharikota(b) Spaceport, French Guiana(c) Baikonur Cosmodrom, Kazakhstan(d) Mojave Air and Space Port, CaliforniaAnswer: (b)Related facts: \u2022 GSAT-11 ISROs heaviest (5854 kg) and most-advanced high throughput communication satellite was successfully launched from Spaceport (Kourou Launch Base) in French Guiana. It is nicknamed as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":62897,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62894","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=62894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62894\/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\/62897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62894"}],"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=62894"},{"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=62894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}