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| GSAT-5P Image Credit ISRO |
Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is scheduled to launch GSAT-5P on December 25, 2010 from launch pad number 2 at Satish Dhawan Space Centre on a GSLV-F06 geosynchronous satellite launch vehicle. GSAT-5P is an advanced communications satellite to replace its INSAT-2E for telecommunication, television and meteorology services and will expand existing telecommunication and television bandwidth.
GSAT-5P
- Fifth in the GSAT series
- Developed by the ISRO Satellite Centre in Bangalore
- C-band communication satellite
- 12 normal C-band transponders
- six extended C-band transponders
- scheduled launch Dec 25, 2010
- mass 2,310 kg
- mission life 12 years
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| GSLV Image Credit: ISRO |
Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV)
- Height: 49 m
- lift off weight: 414 tonne
- maximum diameter of 3.4 m at the payload fairing.
- First stage comprises S125 solid booster with four liquid (L40) strap-ons.
- Second stage (GS2) is liquid engine
- Third stage (GS3) is a cryo stage.
- Lift off thrust of 6573 kn.
- Payload range: 2000 – 2,500 kg
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| INSAT-2E Image Credit ISRO |
INSAT 2E
- launched by Ariane-42P launch vehicle (Ariane 4 with two solid-fuel boosters) of Arianespace from Kourou, French Guyana on April 3, 1999 at 3.33 am IST
- last satellite in the second genaration INSAT-2 series built by ISRO
- Geostationary Orbit at 83 degree East Longitude
- 440 nt thrust Liquid Apogee Motor (LAM) built by Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre, Thiruvananthapuram
- perigee 32,100 km
- apogee 35,925 km
- inclination to equator 0.15 deg
- orbital period ~ 22 hours 27 minutes
- continuously remains within the radio visibility of INSAT Master Control Facility at Hassan in Karnataka
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