GSAT-29 is a high-throughput communication satellite developed by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).ISRO’s GSAT-29 launch in October. The Economic Times, India. 20 September 2018. The mission aims at providing high-speed bandwidth to Village Resource Centres (VRC) in rural areas. The two Ku and Ka operational payloads will provide communication services to Jammu and Kashmir and Northeast India under Digital India programme. At the time of launch GSAT-29 was the heaviest satellite, weighing , that was placed in orbit by an Indian launch vehicle.The third and final orbit raising operation of GSAT-29 ISRO 17 November 2018 Approved cost of GSAT-29 is .
Payloads Apart from its main communication payload in Ka/Ku bands, GSAT-29 hosts few experimental payloads to mature their technology for use in future spacecraft.
Q band and V band payload: experimental microwave communication payloads Optical Communication Technology (OCT) payload: experimental payload for optical communication. GEO imaging High Resolution Camera (GHRC): for high resolution imaging from geosynchronous orbit. It has resolution and can image in six VNIR spectral bands at ~0.6 sec/frame.
Launch
The satellite was launched on 14 November 2018 through the second developmental flight of LVM3, that placed the GSAT-29 satellite into its planned geosynchronous transfer orbit (GTO) over the equator. It joins the Indian National Satellite System (INSAT) fleet in geostationary orbit.
Op # Date/Time (UTC) LAM burn time Height achieved Inclinationachieved Orbital period References Apogee Perigee 1 15 November 2018 08:34 4875 sec 8.9° 13 hr 2 16 November 2018 10:14 4988 sec 0.31° 22 hr, 70 min 3 17 November 2018 04:25 207 sec n/a 24hr
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