{"id":63495,"date":"2018-12-06T01:19:18","date_gmt":"2018-12-05T17:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/arianespace-successfully-launches-gsat-11-for-isro\/"},"modified":"2018-12-06T01:19:18","modified_gmt":"2018-12-05T17:19:18","slug":"arianespace-successfully-launches-gsat-11-for-isro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/arianespace-successfully-launches-gsat-11-for-isro\/","title":{"rendered":"Arianespace Successfully Launches GSAT-11 for ISRO"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>Arianespace<\/strong> launched India\u2019s next generation high throughput communication satellite, GSAT-11, today from Kourou launch base, French Guiana. The satellite was carried on an Ariane 5 rocket, and this mission marks Arianespace\u2019s 5th launch this year. The rocket also carried the KOMPSAT-2A satellite for the Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI).<\/p>\n<p>GSAT-11 was launched into a Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit. Subsequently, ISRO\u2019s Master Control Facility at Hassan took over control of GSAT-11 to perform the initial orbit raising maneuvers, for placing it in circular Geostationary Orbit (GEO). Weighing about 5854 kilograms, GSAT-11 is the heaviest satellite built by <strong>Indian State Research Organization<\/strong> (ISRO).<\/p>\n<p>GSAT-11 is the forerunner in the series of advanced communication satellites with multi-spot beam antenna coverage over the Indian mainland and its islands. GSAT-11 aims to play a vital role in providing broadband services across the country. The launch was delayed earlier this year,&nbsp;due to GSAT-11 needing additional technical checks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arianespace launched India\u2019s next generation high throughput communication satellite, GSAT-11, today from Kourou launch base, French Guiana. The satellite was carried on an Ariane 5 rocket, and this mission marks Arianespace\u2019s 5th launch this year. The rocket also carried the KOMPSAT-2A satellite for the Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI). GSAT-11 was launched into a Geosynchronous [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63496,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63495"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}