The stage is set for the Friday launch of India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle-C17 (PSLV-C17) ferrying the 1,140 kg GSAT-12 communication satellite. The rocket will blast-off from the second launch pad at 4.48 pm on Friday from Indian Space Research Organisation’s rocket port at Sriharikota around 80 km from here.The 53-hour countdown for the launch is progressing smoothly. The countdown for the launch is progressing smoothly. We do not see and problem in the launch,” S Satish, ISRO’s director for publications and public relations, told a news agency. The GSAT-12 satellite has 12 extended C-band transponders – automatic receivers and transmitters for communication and broadcast of signals.
The satellite is expected to serve the Very Small Aperture Terminal (V-SAT) sector. VSATs are used to transmit data like point of sale transactions or to provide satellite internet access.
It will also be useful for various communication services like tele-education, tele-medicine and for village resource centres.
The satellite will augment transponder capacity of Indian National Satellite (Insat) system which presently comprises of eight satellites – Insat-2E, Insat-3A, Insat-3C, Insat-3E, Insat-4A, Insat-4B, Insat-4CR and GSAT-8 providing 175 transponders in the S, C, extend C and Ku bands.
After that, the propellant and helium gas chambers will have to be pressurised, a process that would take another couple of hours.
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