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... Information = http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/datasetSearch.do?spacecraft=INSAT%201B Here Data Collection = Carrier_Rocket = Space Shuttle The INSAT 1B was the second spacecraft in the first generation Indian National ... .e., floods, storms, etc.) can directly reach the civilian population, even in remote areas. The INSAT 1B also had a data channel for relaying meteorological, hydrological, and oceanographic data from unattended ...

... -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 July ...

... a Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) failed when the GSLV malfunctioned, taking with it an INSAT-4C communications satellite. ISRO had created the GSLV series of rockets to put heavy satellites weighing ... kilograms or 2.2–2.8 tons) into geosynchronous orbit. The Indian National Satellite system, INSAT, is a series of domestic communications satellites. ISRO launched the rocket (formally designated GSLV-F02 ...

... pilot wings. Upon graduation, I received my assignment as a fighter pilot to fly F-4C Phantoms in Vietnam. Over the next six to seven months, I attended several courses in ... responsible for operating the arm with the PFTA, while I was responsible for deploying the INSAT-1B satellite. In addition to the PFTA/RMS, the Continuous Flow Electrophoresis System (CFES) was ... of my planned activities were accomplished in the first several days. We successfully deployed the INSAT-1B satellite on flight day one. Forty-five minutes after deploying the satellite, we ignited ...

... Base, Arizona, and received his pilot wings in January 1966. He then went to F 4C combat crew training in Arizona and Florida and was assigned to the 557th Tactical Fighter ... 5,200 hours jet flight time in the T-33, T-37, T-38 , F-4C, F-15, U-2/TR-1 and F-5A/B, including 1,300 hours as ... and night landing. During the mission, the STS-8 crew deployed the Indian National Satellite ( INSAT 1B ), operated the Canadian-built RMS with the Payload Flight Test Article (PFTA), operated the ...

... 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 ...

... in opposite directions. One jet happens to point almost directly toward Earth. This characteristic makes 4C +71.07 a blazar, a classification that includes some of the brightest gamma-ray sources in the sky. Boston University astronomers Alan Marscher and Svetlana Jorstad routinely monitor 4C +71.07 along with dozens of other blazars using several facilities, including the VLBA. The ...

... it toward the Sun. But ISRO also announced September 9 that "an unidentified object" struck INSAT 1B only seconds after its release from Challenger ; an object about eight inches across that ... the Shuttle hit the satellite 23 seconds after separation. Study of a videotape shot during INSAT development ruled out origin of the object in Challenger 's cargo bay. Experts said that this was the first spacecraft to be hit in space by a stray object. INSAT reached the correct geostationary orbit 19 days after launch and was to be operational by ...

... by NASA of two India communications satellites/metesats. In geosynchronous orbit, India's national satellites (INSAT) 1A and 1B would provide the subcontinent with point-to-point television and voice, community ... geosynchronous stations. NASA through KENNEDY SPACE CENTER KSC would provide all other launch-related services. INSAT 1A was scheduled for Shuttle launch in August 1983, or on a Delta in February ...

... 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 ...

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