{"id":295,"date":"2018-11-16T13:15:48","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T13:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tidesacademy.com\/?p=295"},"modified":"2018-11-16T13:15:48","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T13:15:48","slug":"isro-gslv-mk-iii-d2-rocket-puts-gsat-29-in-orbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tidesacademy.com\/2021\/isro-gslv-mk-iii-d2-rocket-puts-gsat-29-in-orbit\/","title":{"rendered":"ISRO GSLV-Mk III D2 Rocket puts GSAT-29 in Orbit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-297\" src=\"https:\/\/tidesacademy.com\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/GSAT-29-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"GSLV Mk-III Launching GSAT-29\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>On November 14, 2018 Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) launched a communication satellite GSAT-29 on its rocket GSLV-Mk-III D2 from Satish Dhawan Space Center at Sriharikota.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Here&#8217;s everything you need to know about GSAT-29 and GSLV MK-III:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h4>GSAT-29<\/h4>\n<p>GSAT-29 is the 33rd communication satellite built by ISRO which will be placed in a geostationary orbit above earth.\u00a0 GSAT-29 is a multi-beam, multi-band communication satellite.GSAT-29 is also India&#8217;s heaviest communication satellites until now.<\/p>\n<p>Its Ku-band and Ka-band payloads are configured to cater to the communication requirements of users including those from remote areas especially from Jammu &amp; Kashmir and North-Eastern regions of India. In addition it carries Q\/V-Band communication payload to demonstrate future high throughput satellite technologies.<\/p>\n<p>GSAT-29 is also carrying a Geo High Resolution camera for high resolution Geo-imaging.<\/p>\n<p><strong>GSLV Mk-III Rocket<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This was the second developmental flight of the ISRO&#8217;s GSLV-Mk-III rocket. It is a three stage heavy lift launch vehicle measuring 43.94 m and weighing 640 tonnes. The first stage has two boosters with solid propellant, the second is the core with liquid propellant, and the cryogenic engine forms the final stage.<\/p>\n<p>GSLV Mk-III is designed to carry a payload of up to\u00a0 4 tonnes into Geo-stationary orbits and up to 10 tonnes into Low Earth Orbit. It&#8217;s payload capacity is double that of its predecessor GSLV Mk-II.<\/p>\n<p>This flight of GSLV Mk-III marks an important milestone in Indian space programme towards achieving self-reliance in launching heavier satellites and signifies completion of experimental stage of GSLV Mk-III.<\/p>\n<p>Questions on such topics are expected in Defence Exams, especially CPAF-AC exam.<\/p>\n<p>You can download a condensed fact sheet with expected questions on this topic for both GSAT-29 and GSLV Mk-III from <a href=\"https:\/\/tidesacademy.com\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/GSAT29-GSLVMk-iii.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On November 14, 2018 Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) launched a communication satellite GSAT-29 on its rocket GSLV-Mk-III D2 from Satish Dhawan Space Center at Sriharikota. Here&#8217;s everything you need to know about GSAT-29 and GSLV MK-III: GSAT-29 GSAT-29 is the 33rd communication satellite built by ISRO which will be placed in a geostationary orbit<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":297,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesacademy.com\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesacademy.com\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesacademy.com\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesacademy.com\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesacademy.com\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tidesacademy.com\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesacademy.com\/2021\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesacademy.com\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesacademy.com\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesacademy.com\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}