GSAT 16 Launched Successfully

[shiwesh]

India's communication satellite GSAT-16 launched successfully - TOI Mobile | The Times of India Mobile Site

 

[IndiaN]

Good Update Bro
Let's See How Isro Use This Sat

 

[shiwesh]

Hope department heads start thinking like CEO's and act fast and logical in new govt regime.

 

[Deepu]

India's communication satellite, GSAT-16, was successfully launched at 0210 hrs IST today (December 7, 2014) by the Ariane-5 launch vehicle VA221 of Arianespace from Kourou, French Guiana. Ariane-5 precisely placed GSAT-16 into the intended Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit (GTO), after a flight of 32 minutes and 20.4 Seconds duration.

ISRO's Master Control Facility (MCF) at Hassan in Karnataka started acquiring the signal from the satellite at 0241 hrs IST and the commanding of the satellite was initiated. Initial checks have indicated normal health of the satellite.

The present orbit of the satellite will be raised to Geostationary Orbit of about 36,000 km altitude through three orbit raising manoeuvres by the firing of GSAT-16's Liquid Apogee Motor (LAM) Engine. Preparations are underway for the first firing, planned in the early hours of December 8, 2014. The satellite will be placed in the Geostationary Orbit by December 12, 2014 and subsequently the satellite's communication transponders will be switched on for in-orbit testing.

Welcome To ISRO :: Press Release :: December 07, 2014

 

[Dileep Kumar]

Good Update Bro :clap

 

[sukhsandhu]

will this use for ku band c band service .how this will be usefull for us?

 

[shawl_who]

gr8... hope it doesnt meet d fate of gsat10. :sp

 

[Karthik]

which DTH will it be using ?

 

[shiwesh]

gr8... hope it doesnt meet d fate of gsat10. :sp

Unfortunately all of these are replacements...ISRO and government need to work on expanding the availability of Ku band for DTH lovers like us...HD channels keep on launching (and in fact less HD launches happen because of unavailability of career DTH) and we are deprived of them...who wants to watch bad quality SD channel on 16:9 HD and UHD TV?

Let's hope for the best...

 

[Sarkar]

will this use for ku band c band service .how this will be usefull for us?

There are many application for example while withdrawing money from bank or ATM you are using C band transponder of communication between your terminal and bank's central server.