INSAT-4E
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INSAT-4E, also known as GSAT-6, is a member of the INSAT family and is a multimedia communication satellite that will offer a Satellite Digital Multimedia Broadcasting (S-DMB) service across several digital multimedia terminals or consoles which can be used to provide information services to vehicles on the fly and to the mobile phones. The satellite can be used for other social and strategic applications.
Key facts
- Spaceflight.name
- INSAT 4E
- Spaceflight.image
- File:GSAT-6 seen with two halves of payload faring of GSLV-D6.jpg
- Spaceflight.image_caption
- GSAT-6 seen with two halves of payload faring of GSLV-D6
- Spaceflight.mission_type
- Communication
- Spaceflight.operator
- INSAT
- Spaceflight.website
- https://www.isro.gov.in/Spacecraft/gsat-6
- Spaceflight.mission_duration
- Planned: 9 years Elapsed:
- Spaceflight.spacecraft_bus
- I-2K
- Spaceflight.manufacturer
- ISRO Satellite CentreSpace Applications Centre
- Spaceflight.power
- 3.1 kilowatts
- Spaceflight.launch_date
- UTC
- Spaceflight.launch_rocket
- GSLV Mk.II D6
- Spaceflight.launch_site
- Satish Dhawan SLP
- Spaceflight.launch_contractor
- ISRO
- Spaceflight.orbit_epoch
- Planned
- Spaceflight.orbit_reference
- Geocentric
- Spaceflight.orbit_regime
- Geostationary
- Spaceflight.orbit_longitude
- 83°E
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- communications satellite
- Country
- India
- Mass
- 2117
- Significant event
- rocket launch
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- UTC date of spacecraft launch
- 2015-08-27
- type of orbit
- geostationary transfer orbit
Sources (2)
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Encyclopedic overview
7 sectionsContents
- Satellite
- Launch
- Orbit raising
- Under-utilization of GSAT-6
- See also
- References
- External links
INSAT-4E, also known as GSAT-6, is a member of the INSAT family and is a multimedia communication satellite that will offer a Satellite Digital Multimedia Broadcasting (S-DMB) service across several digital multimedia terminals or consoles which can be used to provide information services to vehicles on the fly and to the mobile phones. The satellite can be used for other social and strategic applications.
==Satellite== left|thumb|Render of GSAT-6 spacecraft in deployed configuration|215x215px INSAT-4E has five C x S transponders each of 9 MHz bandwidth and five S x C transponders each of 2.7 MHz bandwidth which will together cover the entire country. GSAT-6 uses a 0.8 meter (fixed) and one 6 meter S-Band unfurlable antenna (transmit and receive).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “INSAT-4E” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.