After a flight lasting 38 minutes 25 seconds, GSAT-30 separated from Ariane 5 upper stage in an elliptical Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit.
India
early Friday launched a communication satellite called GSAT-30
from French Guiana on the northeast coast of South America, aiming to
use the space device to improve broadcasting and connectivity in the
country.
European
space consortium Arianespace's Ariane 5 VA-251 rocket lifted off from
Kourou, the launch base, at 2:35 am IST to carry GSAT-30 for the
Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) and the Eutelsat Konnect
satellite for the French telecommunications company Eutelsat.
After
a flight lasting 38 minutes 25 seconds, GSAT-30 separated from Ariane
5 upper stage in an elliptical Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit.
“The
satellite will provide communication services to Indian mainland and
islands through Ku-band and wide coverage covering Gulf countries, a
large number of Asian countries and Australia through C-band,” said
ISRO chairman K Sivan in a statement.
“GSAT-30
will provide DTH Television Services, connectivity to VSATs for ATM,
Stock-exchange, television uplinking and Teleport Services, Digital
Satellite News Gathering (DSNG) and e-governance applications.
ISRO’s
Master Control Facility (MCF) at Hassan in Karnataka took over the
command and control of GSAT-30 immediately after its separation from
the launch vehicle. Preliminary health checks of the satellite
revealed its normal health.
In
the days ahead, orbit-raising manoeuvres will be performed to place
the satellite in Geostationary Orbit (36,000 km above the equator) by
using its on-board propulsion system.
During
the final stages of its orbit raising operations, the two solar
arrays and the antenna reflectors of GSAT-30 will be deployed.
Following this, the satellite will be put in its final orbital
configuration. The satellite will be operational after the successful
completion of all in-orbit tests.
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