{"id":1227,"date":"2015-11-13T11:53:29","date_gmt":"2015-11-13T06:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.apbjp.org\/eng\/?p=1227"},"modified":"2015-11-13T11:53:29","modified_gmt":"2015-11-13T06:23:29","slug":"gsat-15-communications-satellite-was-successfully-launched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.apbjp.org\/eng\/2015\/11\/gsat-15-communications-satellite-was-successfully-launched\/","title":{"rendered":"GSAT-15 communications satellite was successfully launched"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1231\" src=\"http:\/\/www.apbjp.org\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/12219628_1687509614823489_8020277617754526185_n.jpg\" alt=\"12219628_1687509614823489_8020277617754526185_n\" width=\"960\" height=\"716\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.apbjp.org\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/12219628_1687509614823489_8020277617754526185_n.jpg 960w, http:\/\/www.apbjp.org\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/12219628_1687509614823489_8020277617754526185_n-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"text_exposed_show\">Congratulations <a class=\"_58cn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hashtag\/isro?source=feed_text&amp;story_id=1687509614823489\" data-ft=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;*N&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:104}\"><span class=\"_58cl\">\u202a#\u200e<\/span><span class=\"_58cm\">ISRO\u202c<\/span><\/a> for giving the nation the most appropriate Diwali gift &#8211; An indigeneously made communications satellite GSAT-15. It was successfully launched at 03:04 am (IST) today, using one of the world&#8217;s largest rockets &#8211; the Ariane-5. The launch took place from Kourou in French Guyana in South America. The GSAT-15 satellite weighs 3164 kilograms and has been made at a cost of Rs. 278 crores. It carries a suite of 24 transponders which will help in Direct-to-Home (DTH) broadcasting. It also carries a GPS-Aided GEO Augmented Navigation (GAGAN) payload operating in L1 and L5 bands, which will help in aircraft navigation.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations \u202a#\u200eISRO\u202c for giving the nation the most appropriate Diwali gift &#8211; An indigeneously made communications satellite GSAT-15. It was successfully launched at 03:04 am (IST) today, using one of the world&#8217;s largest rockets &#8211; the Ariane-5. The launch took&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1231,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.apbjp.org\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1227"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.apbjp.org\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.apbjp.org\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.apbjp.org\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.apbjp.org\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1227"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.apbjp.org\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1232,"href":"http:\/\/www.apbjp.org\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1227\/revisions\/1232"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.apbjp.org\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.apbjp.org\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.apbjp.org\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.apbjp.org\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}