Thursday, December 4, 2014

GSAT-16

GSAT-16.
ISO's satellite is being put into orbit from French Guiana on December 5. It is a communications satellite . It will significantly improve the national space capacity with 48 transponders( the highest number of transponders packed into an Indian spacecraft so far) .
ISRO Chairman, K.Radhakrishnan said that the launch was advanced by six moths to meet user needs.
This is also the highest number of transponders packed into an Indian spacecraft so far.

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