Chennai, Nov 28 : Aimed at meeting the unprecedented data demands,
India’s next generation high throughput communication satellite GSAT-11,
configured around ISRO’s I-6K Bus, would be launched on December five
from onboard Ariane-5 launch vehicle (VA 246) from French Guiana.
Weighing about 5,854 kg, GSAT-11 was the heaviest satellite built by ISRO.
The satellite will be initially placed in the Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit and
will subsequently be raised to Geostationary Orbit by firing the Liquid Apogee
Motor onboard the satellite.
GSAT-11 will be located at 74° East and is the fore-runner in a series of
advanced communications satellite with multi-spot beam antenna coverage
over Indian mainland and Islands.
With a mission life of 15 years, GSAT-11 woud carry 32 user beams (Ku-band)
and eight Hub beams (Ka-band) as payload.
It would play a vital role in providing broadband services across the country,
besides providing a platform to demonstrate new generation applications.
ISRO sources said the GSAT-11 applications were intended to meet the
unprecedented data demands, greater capacity and high data rates over
regions using spot beams, supporting BharathNet connectivity with
substantial bandwidth coverage to gram panchayats for supporting
e-Governance and other digital platforms, VSAT Terminals with large
capacity platform to support a huge subscriber base, besides supporting
enterprise network and consumer broadband applications.
