{"id":6885,"date":"2023-03-31T09:42:51","date_gmt":"2023-03-31T04:12:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=6885"},"modified":"2025-03-28T15:39:03","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T10:09:03","slug":"what-is-gsat-7b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-gsat-7b\/","title":{"rendered":"What is GSAT 7B?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About GSAT 7B:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a <strong>communication satellite<\/strong> part of the <strong>GSAT-7 series.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>GSAT 7 series satellites are <strong>advanced communication satellites<\/strong> <strong>developed<\/strong> <strong>by<\/strong> the <strong>Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO<\/strong>) to meet the <strong>communication needs of the defence services.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The GSAT 7B will <strong>primarily fulfil the communication needs of the Indian Army<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It is a geostationary satellite which will considerably <strong>enhance the communication capability of the Indian Army<\/strong> by providing mission-critical beyond-the-line-of-sight communication to troops and formations as well as weapon and airborne platforms.<\/li>\n<li>It is the <strong>first-ever in the five-tonne category<\/strong> that will be designed indigenously <strong>by the ISRO.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>\u00a0GSAT 7 Series Satellites:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>GSAT-7 (Rukmini):<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>It is <strong>India\u2019s first military satellite<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It was <strong>launched in August 2013<\/strong> from an Ariane 5 ECA rocket from Kourou in French Guiana.<\/li>\n<li>It is an <strong>advanced communication satellite<\/strong> developed by ISRO and primarily provides <strong>communication services to the Indian Navy.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>GSAT 7A:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>It primarily provides communication <strong>services to the Indian Air Force<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>It also helps in<\/strong> satellite-controlled <strong>operations of UAVs.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0What is a Geostationary Orbit?<\/h3>\n<p>Geostationary orbit is a type of geosynchronous orbit of a satellite whereby it moves with the same speed as the rotation of the Earth. Because it orbits at the same speed as Earth revolves, a geostationary satellite seems to be stationary if seen from the surface of the Earth.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/after-navy-iaf-army-to-get-dedicated-satellite-gsat-7b-as-mod-inks-rs-3k-cr-deal-with-nsil\/articleshow\/99129740.cms?from=mdr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>After Navy &amp; IAF, Army to get dedicated satellite Gsat-7B as MoD inks Rs 3k cr deal with NSIL<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GSAT 7B  is a communication satellite part of the GSAT-7 series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6886,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6885","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\/6885","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=6885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}