India’s GSAT-15 communication satellite launched successfully

Afterwards, at 43 minutes and 24 seconds the GSAT-15 flight separated from the Ariane 5 upper stage.

It successfully launched an indigeneously made communications satellite GSAT-15, using one of the world’s largest rockets – the Ariane-5.

An Arabsat communications satellite also accompanied the GSAT-15 on the same launch.

Airbus Defence and Space built Arabsat 6B with partner Thales Alenia Space. The spacecraft had a mass of 5,798 kg at liftoff, and will provide broadcast, broadband and telecommunications services over the Middle East, Africa, and Central Asia regions.

“This achievement demonstrates, yet again, India’s capabilities in space launch technology”, he said asked him to convey his greetings to other team members to whom this “nation is grateful for their hard work and proud of their accomplishments”.

“ISRO has chosen Arianespace to launch telecommunication satellites GSAT-17 and GSAT-18”.

While the emphasis was put squarely on the customers for today’s mission, Flight VA227 also continued a busy year of launch activity for Arianespace – which is on pace to perform a record 12 launches from the Spaceport using its Ariane 5, Soyuz and Vega vehicles, having now completed 10 so far.

While GSAT-15 with its 14 Ku-band transponders (automatic receivers and transmitters of radio signals) is expected to replace the transponder capacities of older satellites, ISRO is silent on the total number of satellite transponders it has under its fold-owned and leased.

Emergency and navigation aids will also be provided by this latest Indian satellite.

“Weighing approximately 3,400 kg, at launch each, the two spacecraft are planned as replacements for currently-operational relay platforms that provide key national services in multiple frequency bands”, Arianespace said after the successful launch of another Indian telecom satellite GSAT-15 on Tuesday evening from spaceport in French Guiana.

GSAT -15 is the 19th payload for ISRO started by Arianespace.