The satellite draws its legacy from the earlier satellite sequence INSAT / GSAT from ISRO, and is fitted with 12 C and 12 Ku channel transponders.
The satellite derives its heritage from ISRO’s earlier INSAT/GSAT satellite series, and is equipped with 12 C and 12 Ku band transponders.
India's high-power communication satellite GSAT-30, intended to provide high-quality television, telecommunications and radio facilities, was successfully launched aboard French Guyana's Ariane 5 rocket early Friday, the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) said.
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Blasting off from the Ariane Launch Complex in Kourou, a French territory situated on the northeastern coast of South America at 2:35 am IST, the European space alliance Arianespace 5 fired GSAT-30 into orbit in a seamless flight lasting nearly 38 minutes.
"Separated from the # Ariane5 # VA251′′ ISRO # GSAT30 successfully in a tweet.
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Confirming the successful launch, Arianespace CEO Stéphane Israël tweeted: "Fast start to 2020 as # Ariane5 successfully deploys its two satellite passengers–EUTELSAT KONNECT and GSAT-30–into geostationary transfer orbit! I appreciate the confidence of the two clients in this mission: @Eutelsat SA and @ISRO # VA251 # MissiontoSuccess.
The Director of the ISRO U R Rao Satellite Center P Kunhikrishnan, who was present in Kourou, congratulated the ISRO group and the Arianespace team on the successful launch.
In calling it an "excellent start" for ISRO by 2020 with the launch, he said, "The satellite has already been received by the mission team at the master control center, and they will instantly complete the post-launch operations ...."
The 3,357-kg spacecraft, which was launched from the lower passenger location of the launch vehicle Ariane-5 (VA 251) to the geostationary transfer orbit (GTO), is designed to provide communications services from the geostationary orbit in C and Ku bands on the enhanced I-3 K bus system of ISRO.
The satellite draws its legacy from earlier ISRO satellite series INSAT / GSAT, and is fitted with 12 C and 12 Ku channel transponders.
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GSAT-30 is to substitute the "late" INSAT-4A spacecraft facilities with improved coverage, ISRO said, adding that the satellite offers Ku-band coverage of India's mainland and islands and extended coverage of C-band coverage of Gulf countries, a large number of Asian countries and Australia.GSAT-30 has a 15-year contract life and is an active contact satellite for DTH, cable uplink, and VSAT networks.
The ISRO headquartered in Bengaluru has confirmed that GSAT-30's contact payload is specifically designed and tailored to maximize the number of transponders on the spacecraft bus.
The spacecraft would be used widely to assist VSAT (Very Small Aperture Terminal) network, tv uplinking and relay systems, automated satellite news gathering (DSNG), DTH broadcasting coverage, wireless backhaul access and many other uses, according to the space agency.
Arianespace said it would orbit EUTELSAT KONNECT, a telecommunication satellite for operator Eutelsat, along with GSAT-30 on its website for its initial flight of 2020, using an Ariane 5 launch vehicle from the Guiana Space Centre.
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Arianespace said it would orbit EUTELSAT KONNECT, a telecommunications satellite for operator Eutelsat, along with GSAT-30 on its website for its initial 2020 mission, using an Ariane 5 launch vehicle from the Guiana Space Centre.
EUTELSAT KONNECT – developed for Eutelsat by Thales Alenia Space – was in the top position of the Ariane 5 payload configuration and was first published in the flight sequence at 27 minutes after lift-off.
Since Indian experimental satellite APPLE was launched on Ariane Flight L03 in 1981, Arianespace has orbited 24 satellites for the Indian Space Agency, including GSAT-30.
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