India Successfully Launches GSAT-12

India on Friday completed its latest communication satellite GSAT-12 variant of the powerful on board the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle homemade, PSLV-C17, from the Space Port in Sriharikota.

In a textbook launch, Indian Space Research Organisation's workhorse PSLV started from the second launch pad is the Satish Dhawan Space Centre here at 4:48 at the end of the 53-hour countdown, and placed 1410 kg GSAT-12 in orbit about 20 minutes later.

"I am very pleased that the C17-PSVL GSAT12 mission is successful. Booster rocket injected the satellite into planned orbit very close," beamed ISRO chairman K. Radhakrishnan know.

Is in his 18th consecutive successful mission PSLV zoomed into a cloudy sky scientists broke into jubilation mission control center here, 90 km from Chennai.

GSAT-12 is injected into an elliptical Transfer Orbit 284 km perigee (nearest point on land) and 21000 km apogee (farthest point to Earth).

So Liquid Apogee Motor on board the satellite would be used instead of circular orbits.

GSAT-12, which aims to improve the capacity of the casing system for various communication services such as tele-education, tele-medicine and village center would be co-located with the casing and casing-2E-4A satellite.

It was the second time in its 19 aircraft have been used in the PSLV launch communications satellite after Kalpana-1, 2002nd

ISRO to use the most powerful configuration, the six-XL Solid Strap-On to expand carrying 12 tonnes of solid propellant motors in the standard nine-tonne PSLV Friday's flight. A similar configuration to use a maiden launch of India's Chandrayaan-1 moon mission of the 2008th

ISRO PSLV launch vehicle chosen for its reliability in front of two errors in the previous GSLV flight in April and December 2010, mission to blow the place to resolve the GSAT and GSAT-5-5P path caused by the lack of a transponder.

To launch GSAT-12, equipped with a 12 Extended C-band transponders, partly to meet the growing demand for transponders on a short turnaround time.

Cable, whose mission is life about eight years and a total of PSLV would cost around Rs 200 crore.

Mr. Radhakrishnan said Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has extended his warm congratulations to the team of ISRO for successful launch of GSAT-12.

He said that ISRO would be in the coming months through a series of missions, PSLV launch more satellites.

He said that would cater to the GSAT-12-medicine and tele-education services, and "more important" to support disaster management.

Head of ISRO, says the space agency was on the agenda reliable cryogenic stage in GSLV (indigenous people), "which takes place annually.

"ISRO team will continue the courage and determination."

India's ambitious home-grown stage cryogenic error has met the two GSLV rockets - in April and December 2010.

Shelves efforts of ISRO team, says Union Minister of State in PMO V. Narayanasamy it would launch a public meeting the demand for more transponders.

ISRO officials said GSAT-12 and all parameters were "healthy".