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... night launch and night landing. During the mission crew members deployed the Indian National Satellite ( INSAT 1B ); operated the Canadian-built Remote Manipulator System (RMS) with the Payload Flight Test Article (PFTA ...

... Shuttle program. During the flight, the crew of STS-8 deployed the Indian National Satellite ( INSAT 1B ), operated and tested the Canadian-build Remote Manipulator System (RMS) robot arm, and performed numerous ...

... by Ford Aerospace to Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) specifications and launched from Cape Canaveral , INSAT was the first operational spacecraft equipped for telecommunications, direct-broadcast television, and weather. Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's government had planned to use INSAT to broadcast the Asian Games scheduled for New Delhi. ISRO was reported "caught off guard ...

... -high-frequency communications instruments, a secure payload-control system, antijamming capabilities, and multiple spot beams. Insat 4B carried 12 Ku-band transponders to reach homes and businesses throughout India, as well ... the Middle East to Southeast Asia. Insat 4B was the second Insat-4 craft to reach orbit successfully. Insat 4A had successfully launched in 2005, but Insat 4C ’s launch vehicle had exploded in ...

... agreement covering the reimbursable launch of the Indian National Satellite, INSAT 1C, scheduled for mid-1986 aboard the Space Shuttle . INSAT 1C was a multipurpose satellite that would provide communications and meteorological ... ISRO scientist/engineer would serve as a payload specialist aboard the Space Shuttle during the INSAT 1C mission. Discussions were also held concerning experiments the Indian payload specialist would perform during ...

... 's Galaxy 12 commercial telecommunications satellite and the Indian Space Research Organisation's (ISRO's) INSAT 3A satellite. The Ariane 5G standard version was the first launch of an Ariane rocket ... 72º west. The 3-tonne (3.3-ton, 3,000-kilogram, or 6,614-pound) INSAT 3A geostationary communications and weather-monitoring satellite carried 12 C-band, 6 extended C-band ... India from its position at longitude 93.5º east. The ISRO satellite carried the typical INSAT package of visual, infrared, and water-vapor band sensors to monitor clouds and storms, as ...

... for launch in 1981 from the Space Shuttle of India's first national satellite, INSAT-1. INSAT-1, a multipurpose spacecraft in geostationary orbit, would provide India with domestic public telecommunications and ...

... for a European communications satellite system; Germany's TVSat broadcasting system; India's Insat 1-A and Insat 1-B for television and meteorological use; Indonesia's Palapa-A system for limited ...

NASA launched the Indian Department of Space payload INSAT-IA from ESMC at 1:48 a.m. EST on a Delta into an orbit ... perigee, and 28.4 ° inclination. An apogee boost motor fired April 11 and 12 put Insat 1 into synchronous orbit at 74 °E over the equator. Attempts to release the C ...

... their orbit. The first major task of the STS-8 mission would be deployment of INSAT-B, and the crew spent most of August 30 checking the performance of the 50 ... -spacecraft package later in the mission in rehearsal for future release or retrieval of satellites. INSAT-B was launched over the Indian Ocean August 31 at 7:49 GMT and successfully ...

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