{"id":24577,"date":"2024-11-19T09:22:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-19T03:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=24577"},"modified":"2025-10-06T11:14:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T05:44:19","slug":"gsat-20-satellite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/gsat-20-satellite\/","title":{"rendered":"What is GSAT-N2 (GSAT-20)?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About GSAT-N2 (GSAT-20):<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is <strong>India\u2019s advanced communication satellite<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It was developed by <strong>New Space India Limited (NSIL),<\/strong> the <strong>commercial arm of ISRO<\/strong> under the Department of Space.<\/li>\n<li>It was <strong>launched onboard SpaceX\u2019s Falcon-9 rocket<\/strong> into a <strong>geosynchronous transfer orbit.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is designed to <strong>provide data and internet services to remote regions<\/strong> and enable <strong>in-flight Internet connectivity across<\/strong> the <strong>Indian subcontinent.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It will provide significant data transmission capacity, particularly for India&#8217;s Smart Cities Mission.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Features:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a high-<strong>throughput communication satellite<\/strong> operating in the <strong>Ka-band.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The satellite is equipped with <strong>multiple spot beams<\/strong> and is designed to <strong>support a large user base<\/strong>, utilizing small user terminals.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>GSAT-N2 features <strong>32 user beams<\/strong>\u20148 narrow spot beams over the Northeast region and 24 wide spot beams covering the rest of India.<\/li>\n<li>These beams will be <strong>supported by hub stations across mainland India<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The satellite\u2019s Ka-band high-throughput communication payload provides a <strong>throughput of around 48 Gbps.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The GSAT-N2 satellite, with a lift-off mass of <strong>4,700 kg,<\/strong> has a <strong>mission life of 14 years.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>This is <strong>India\u2019s highest throughput satellite<\/strong> and the <strong>only one exclusively operating in<\/strong> the highly sought-after <strong>Ka-band.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Why Falcon-9 rocket was chosen?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>While <strong>ISRO\u2019s Mark-3<\/strong> launch vehicle <strong>can place up to 4,000 kg<\/strong> into a geostationary transfer orbit, the <strong>GSAT-N2\u2019s weight of 4,700 kg<\/strong> required a different solution.<\/li>\n<li>As a result, <a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/upsc-exam\/isro\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>ISRO<\/strong><\/a><strong> turned to SpaceX\u2019s <\/strong>launch vehicle for the mission, marking<strong> ISRO\u2019s first commercial collaboration with <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/spacex-starship\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>SpaceX<\/strong><\/a><strong>.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1<\/strong>: What is a Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit (GTO)?<\/h3>\n<p>A GTO is a highly elliptical orbit used to transfer a spacecraft from a low Earth orbit (LEO) to a geosynchronous orbit (GEO). GEO is a circular orbit around Earth where the satellite matches Earth&#8217;s rotation period, making it appear stationary relative to the ground.<\/p>\n<p><strong>News: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/spacexs-falcon-9-deploys-indias-gsat-n2-satellite-into-orbit\/article68883503.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">SpaceX\u2019s Falcon-9 deploys India\u2019s GSAT-N2 satellite into orbit<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GSAT-N2 (GSAT-20) is India\u2019s advanced communication satellite.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":24578,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-24577","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}