{"id":3332,"date":"2011-07-16T03:29:41","date_gmt":"2011-07-16T11:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.generalknowledgetoday.com\/?p=3332"},"modified":"2011-07-16T03:29:41","modified_gmt":"2011-07-16T11:29:41","slug":"current-affairs-india-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/?p=3332","title":{"rendered":"Current affairs India"},"content":{"rendered":"
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GSAT-12 communication satellite launched successfully by PSLV<\/h1>\n

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The Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) on Friday successfully launched its Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV- C17) from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota, 100 km north of Chennai, carrying to space GSAT-12, a communication satellite. This is the 18th successful launch of PSLV.<\/p>\n

The majestic launch vehicle lifted off from Sriharikota at 4.40 pm and within a few seconds disappeared into the clouds. Thirty minutes later, it injected the satellite into an orbit with a perigee (closest point to earth) of 284 km and an apogee (farthest point) of 21,000 km.<\/p>\n

“PSLV-C17 launch has been a success,” Isro chairman K Radhakrishnan said. “We have achieved an orbit just 8 km away from the one planned. In the next half an hour we will get information on the health of the satellite.”<\/p>\n

GSAT-12, weighing 1,410 kg at lift-off, is configured to meet the country’s growing demand for transponders in a short turnaround time. It will boost television broadcasting and various other communication services like tele-education, telemedicine and village resource centres.<\/p>\n

PSLV-C17, which marked the 19th flight of the Isro’s workhorse, was similar to the one used for the Chandrayaan-1 mission on October 22, 2008, with six extended solid strap-on motors. The Indian National Satellite (Insat) system, established in 1983, is one of the largest domestic communication satellite systems in the Asia Pacific region.<\/p>\n

GSAT joins that system, which has eight other satellites \u2013 Insat- 2E, Insat- 3A, Insat- 3C, Insat- 3E, Insat- 4A, Insat- 4B, Insat- 4CR and GSAT-8, providing 175 transponders in the S, C, Ext-C and Ku-bands.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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