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GSat 1
GSat 1 [ISRO]
While the first developmental test flight of the GSLV is primarily intended for validating the vehicle design and its performance parameters as well as the associated ground infrastructure, the flight opportunity is also made use of to place an experimental satellite GSAT-1 weighing about 1540 kg. GSAT-1 will be used to prove new spacecraft elements like ten Newton Reaction Control Thrusters, Fast Recovery Star Sensors and Heat Pipe Radiator Panels to validate them before using them in the ISRO operational ISRO satellites like IRS and INSATs. GSAT-1 will also carry two C-band transponders employing 10 W Solid State Power Amplifiers (SSPAs), one C-band transponder using 50 W Travelling Wave Tube Amplifier (TWTA) and two S-band transponders using 70W TWTA.
GSAT-1 will be used for demonstrating digital audio broadcast, internet services, compressed digital TV experiments and developmental communication.
| Nation: | India |
|---|---|
| Type / Application: | Experimental Communication |
| Operator: | Insat |
| Contractors: | ISRO |
| Equipment: | 3 C-band transponders, 2 S-band transponders |
| Configuration: | I-2K (I-2000) Bus |
| Propulsion: | LAM |
| Power: | Deployable solar array, batteries |
| Lifetime: | |
| Mass: | 1540 kg |
| Orbit: | GEO |
| Satellite | COSPAR | Date | LS | Launch Vehicle | Remarks | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GSat 1 (GramSat 1) | 2001-015A | 18.04.2001 | Sr FLP | P | GSLV Mk.1(1) |
References:
- ISRO: GSAT-1
- GSat 1 [I-2K]
- GSat 2 [I-2K]
- GSat 3 (EduSat) [I-2K]
- GSat 4 (HealthSat) [I-2K]
- GSat 5 [I-2K]
- GSat 5P [I-2K]
- GSat 6, 6A [I-2K]
- GSat 7 [I-2K]
- GSat 7A [I-2K]
- GSat 8 [I-3K]
- GSat 9 (South Asian Satellite) [I-2K]
- GSat 10 [I-3K]
- GSat 11 [I-6K]
- GSat 12, 12R (CMS 01) [I-1K]
- GSat 14 [I-2K]
- GSat 15 [I-3K]
- GSat 16 [I-3K]
- GSat 17 [I-3K]
- GSat 18 [I-3K]
- GSat 19 [I-3K]
- GSat 20 (GSat N2, CMS 03) [I-3K]
- GSat 22 [I-3K]
- GSat 23 [I-3K]
- GSat 24 (CMS 02) [I-3K]
- GSat 29 [I-3K]
- GSat 30 [I-3K]
- GSat 31 [I-2K]
- GSat 32 [I-8K]
