{"id":82983,"date":"2012-06-07T23:10:42","date_gmt":"2012-06-07T15:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/isro-testing-gsat-7-satellite-for-indian-navy\/"},"modified":"2012-06-07T23:10:42","modified_gmt":"2012-06-07T15:10:42","slug":"isro-testing-gsat-7-satellite-for-indian-navy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/isro-testing-gsat-7-satellite-for-indian-navy\/","title":{"rendered":"ISRO Testing GSAT-7 Satellite for Indian Navy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[06-07-12] <b>The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO)<\/b> has built a dedicated satellite for the <b>Indian Navy<\/b> that will be launched this summer by <b>Arianespace<\/b> on an Ariane-5 rocket from the European Spaceport in French Guiana, ISRO announced June 6.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp;The GSAT-7 communication satellite is currently undergoing thermo-vacuum tests at the ISRO Satellite Center in Bangalore. The Indian Navy will use GSAT-7 to communicate with its submarines, frigates, destroyers and aircraft from their bases onshore.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;According to ISRO\u2019s annual report for 2011-12, GSAT-7 was designed as, \u201ca multi-band satellite that employs the standard 2.5-ton bus platform with the power handling capability of around 2,600 Watts and a lift-off mass of 2,550 kg.\u201d<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;The report added that all of the satellite\u2019s mainframe and payload elements have been delivered and that GSAT-7 would be ready for shipment sometime in 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[06-07-12] The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) has built a dedicated satellite for the Indian Navy that will be launched this summer by Arianespace on an Ariane-5 rocket from the European Spaceport in French Guiana, ISRO announced June 6. &nbsp; &nbsp;The GSAT-7 communication satellite is currently undergoing thermo-vacuum tests at the ISRO Satellite Center in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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-82983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82983"}],"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=82983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}