GSAT-19

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GSAT-19
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Mission type Communications
Operator INSAT
COSPAR ID 2017-031A OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
SATCAT no. 42747
Website GSAT-19
Mission durationPlanned: 10 years [1]
Elapsed: 7 years, 28 days
Spacecraft properties
Bus I-3K
Manufacturer ISRO Satellite Centre
Space Applications Centre
Launch mass3,136 kg (6,914 lb) [1]
Dry mass1,394 kg (3,073 lb) [1]
Dimensions2.0 × 1.77 × 3.1 m (6.6 × 5.8 × 10.2 ft) [1]
Power4,500 watts [1]
Start of mission
Launch date5 June 2017, 11:58 (2017-06-05UTC11:58)  UTC [2]
Rocket LVM3-D1 [3]
Launch site Satish Dhawan SLP
Contractor ISRO
Orbital parameters
Reference system Geocentric
Regime Geostationary
Longitude48° E [4]
Perigee altitude 35,470 km (22,040 mi)
Apogee altitude 35,869 km (22,288 mi)
Inclination 0.101 deg
Period 23 hr, 50 min, 10 sec
Epoch 10 June 2017, 02:29 UTC [5]
Transponders
Band
Coverage areaIndia
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GSAT-19 is an Indian communications satellite launched by the Indian Space Research Organisation aboard an LVM3 on 5 June 2017. [2]

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Satellite and payloads

The satellite will act as a testbed for the modular I-6K satellite bus, carrying experimental technologies such as ion thrusters for manoeuvring and stabilisation, active thermal control using thermal radiators, a miniaturised inertial reference unit, indigenously produced lithium-ion batteries, and C-band traveling-wave-tube amplifiers. [6] [7] [8]

Rather than traditional transponders, GSAT-19 carries four Ku/Ka-band forward link beams and four Ku/Ka-band return link beams, providing much higher data throughput than India's previous communications satellites. [9] [10] It additionally carries a Geostationary Radiation Spectrometer (GRASP) payload, which will "monitor and study the nature of charged particles and the influence of space radiation on satellites and their electronic components". [11]

Orbit raising and station keeping

The satellite was launched aboard the LVM3-D1 rocket in the evening of 5 June 2017 to a geostationary transfer orbit perigee of 180 km (112 mi). This was followed by a series of orbit raising operations (using an on-board LAM and chemical thrusters [1] ) to place the satellite in the intended geostationary orbital slot.

Op #Date/
Time (UTC)		LAM burn timeHeight achievedInclination
achieved		Orbital periodReferences
ApogeePerigee
16 June 2017
08:33		116 s35,938 km (22,331 mi)172.77 km (107.35 mi)21.56°10 h, 30 min [12]
27 June 2017
10:14		5538 s35,840 km (22,270 mi)10,287 km (6,392 mi)7.02°13 h, 58 min [13]
39 June 2017
04:25		3469 s35,875 km (22,292 mi)30,208 km (18,770 mi)0.793°21 h, 38 min [14]
410 June 2017
02:29		488 s35,869 km (22,288 mi)35,470 km (22,040 mi)0.101°23 h, 50 min, 10 s [5]

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