{"id":84326,"date":"2011-08-29T20:51:30","date_gmt":"2011-08-29T12:51:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/isro-seeking-c-ku-band-capacity-from-foreign-operators\/"},"modified":"2011-08-29T20:51:30","modified_gmt":"2011-08-29T12:51:30","slug":"isro-seeking-c-ku-band-capacity-from-foreign-operators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/isro-seeking-c-ku-band-capacity-from-foreign-operators\/","title":{"rendered":"ISRO Seeking C-, Ku-band Capacity from Foreign Operators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[08-29-11] <b>The Indian Space Research Organization<\/b> (ISRO) issued a request to foreign satellite operators Aug. 26 for extra C- and Ku-band transponder capacity in Ku- and C-band, due to a shortage of space for HDTV channels.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;ISRO currently has 187 transponders from nine Indian communication satellites, including transponder space on its new GSAT-12 satellite. The organization has already leased 86.5 transponders from foreign operators through its <b>Antrix<\/b> marketing wing. ISRO also plans to raise its transponder capacity organically by building and launching its upcoming GSAT-9, GSAT-10 and GSAT-11 satellites.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;While the Indian government has licensing restrictions on foreign operators, the list of interested broadcasters looking to beam channels into India has grown significantly over the past two years.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;Earlier this year, Indian broadcaster <b>Dish TV<\/b> leased four extra-wide transponders of 54 megahertz on AsiaSat 5 in order to boost its own standard and high definition signals. <b>Tata Sky,<\/b> a joint venture between Tata Group and <b>News Corp<\/b>.\u2019s <b>Star Group<\/b>, has expressed interests to take up 12 extra ISRO transponders for expansion, but ISRO\u2019s restrictions prevent the organization from meeting its demand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[08-29-11] The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) issued a request to foreign satellite operators Aug. 26 for extra C- and Ku-band transponder capacity in Ku- and C-band, due to a shortage of space for HDTV channels. &nbsp; &nbsp;ISRO currently has 187 transponders from nine Indian communication satellites, including transponder space on its new GSAT-12 satellite. [&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-84326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84326"}],"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=84326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}