Apr 10 1982
From The Space Library
NASA launched the Indian Department of Space payload INSAT-IA from ESMC at 1:48 a.m. EST on a Delta into an orbit with 35,985-kilometer apogee, 166-kilometer 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-band (uplink) antenna were unsuccessful; ground control deployed it by blasting it with the reaction-control jets. The S-band (downlink) antenna deployed without difficulty, but the solar sail would not release as planned. (NASA Release 82-44; NASA MOR 0-492-214-82-01 [prelaunch] Mar 30/82, [postlaunch] May 18/82; C Trib, Apr 12/82, 4)
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