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ISRO’s First Space Mission Of 2020 Successful; Telecommunications Satellite GSAT-30 Launched From French Guiana
The 3,357-kg satellite is slated to blast off from the Ariane Launch Complex at Kourou. (Credits: ISRO)
Blasting off from the Earth's surface onboard the French Ariane-5 space vehicle, India's telecommunications satellite GSAT-30 has been successfully lifted to space and placed in Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit on Friday (17 January), reports Asian News International (ANI).
The launch marked Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)'s first space mission of 2020. The GSAT-30 would facilitate and aid a large array of services including DTH television, ATM connectivity, stock-exchanges and e-governance applications among others.
The satellite is capable of not only providing flexible frequency segments and coverage which would enable it to provide communication services to the mainland India, islands as well as a number of Gulf and Asian nations and Australia.
