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ISRO – GSAT 6A satellite
April 1 , 2018
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- The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) successfully launched GSAT 6A communication satellite on board of GSLV-F08 rocket from Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh.
- This was overall 12th GSLV flight (and fifth successful) and sixth flight with indigenously built cryogenic upper stage engine.
- GSAT-6A is high power S-band communication satellite with a mission life of about 10 years. It was placed in Geosynchronous orbit of Earth.
- It is most powerful home-made communication satellite till date.
- It is similar to GSAT-6 which is a high power S-band communication satellite that was launched back in 2015
- The S-band’s antenna of GSAT-6A was developed by ISRO’s Space Applications Centre, Ahmedabad.
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