Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit News Today

India's communication satellite, GSAT-16, was successfully launched at 0210 hrs IST today (December 7, 2014) by the Ariane-5 launch vehicle VA221 of Arianespace from Kourou, French Guiana. Ariane-5 precisely placed GSAT-16 into the intended Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit (GTO), after a flight of 32 minutes and 20.4 Seconds duration. ISRO's Master Control Facility (MCF) at Hassan

ORLANDO, Fla. — SpaceX completed the 11th launch from Florida's Space Coast for the year under clear blue skies on Tuesday afternoon, marking the 300th successful orbital mission for a Falcon 9 rocket. The workhorse for Elon Musk’s company lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 40 at 3:11 p.m. carrying the Merah Putih 2 telecommunications satellite for Telkom ...

SpaceX knocked out the 11th launch from the Space Coast for the year under clear blue skies on Tuesday afternoon. A Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 40 at 3:11 p.m. carrying the Merah Putih 2 telecommunications satellite for Telkom Indonesia to a geosynchronous transfer orbit. This was the 17th launch of the first stage booster, and ...

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The Nasa-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR), scheduled to be launched next month, will study the Earth and the impact of climate change.

ISRO Chairman Somanath emphasized the complexity of the upcoming rocket and the development of high-end technology. 

India successfully put into orbit its third generation meteorological or weather satellite INSAT-3DS on Saturday evening in copybook style.

He also said internal discussions are on about the next moon mission – Chandrayaan-4 as to what it should achieve differently that was not done by others.

The project report for the next generation rocket has been submitted by the project team and the next stage is to seek government funds, said S Somanath, chairperson, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).

Tomorrow, ISRO will launch the INSAT-3DS weather satellite from Sriharikota's Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) SHAR.