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Elon Musk’s SpaceX company launched India’s GSAT-N2 communication satellite from a Falcon 9 rocket at midnight on November 18. The 4700 kg satellite has been built for a 14-year mission. It has been installed from the Geo Stationary Transfer Orbit.
This satellite will provide high speed broadband internet connectivity and digital video-audio transmission. GSAT-N2 has been designed in such a way that mobile internet facility will be available during flight in an airplane.
This is the first time that the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) has sent its communication satellite into space with the help of an American businessman’s company.
It is worth mentioning that GSAT-N2 is the first ISRO spacecraft to be sent into space from an American launch vehicle since 1990, before this INSAT-1D was launched.
The first phase was recovered about 8 minutes after the flight. This was SpaceX’s 371st recovery.
Know about GSAT-N2…
The GSAT-20 satellite has been specially designed to improve communication in remote areas. ISRO said – The name of the GSAT 20 satellite will be GSAT-N2 and it will essentially provide broadband internet facility in remote areas.
This satellite weighs 4700 kg. It will provide internet facility at a speed of 48Gpbs. This satellite will provide communication services in remote Indian areas including Andaman-Nicobar Islands, Jammu and Kashmir and Lakshadweep.
After being placed in orbit, India’s Master Control Facility in Hassan, which is part of ISRO, took control of the satellite. In a few days it will reach 36 thousand km from India.
India was dependent on France for launching heavy satellites
This is the first time that ISRO has used Space-X’s Falcon-9 heavy lift launcher to launch one of its missions. Information about this launch was given by ISRO’s commercial partner New Space India Limited (NSIL) in January 2024.
Actually, India’s rockets do not have the capacity to launch satellites heavier than 4 tonnes. Therefore, it was decided to work together with Elon Musk’s space agency.
Earlier, India was dependent on the France-led Arianespace Consortium to launch heavy satellites.
Now know what is Musk’s company’s Bahubali rocket – Falcon 9
Falcon 9 can lift up to 8300 kg in geosynchronous transfer orbit and 22 thousand 800 kg in low earth orbit.
SpaceX’s Falcon-9 is the first orbital class rocket that can be reused. Falcon Heavy is considered to be the most powerful operational rocket. Falcon 9 B-5 rocket is 70 meters long and weighs about 549 tons.
It has the capacity to carry 16,800 kg of weight to Mars. Falcon Heavy took its first flight on February 6, 2018. Elon Musk’s Tesla car was sent into space with it. So far Falcon 9 has been a part of 396 launches.
During this time it has failed only four times. That is, the success rate of Falcon is 99%. According to experts, the cost of a single launch of Falcon 9 rocket is about 70 million dollars.
