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Launch Success
Liftoff Time (GMT)
11:26:00
Thursday March 29, 2018
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GSAT-6A is a communications satellite operated by the Indian Space Research Organisation. It features a 6-metre (20 ft) unfurlable S-band antenna similar to the one used on GSAT-6. The first orbit raising maneuver for GSAT-6A was carried out as planned on 30 March 2018 by firing the Liquid Apogee Motor for 2188 seconds from 09:22 AM IST. The second orbit raising maneuver was carried out at 10:00 AM on 31 March 2018. As the satellite was on-course for its third and final orbit raising maneuver on 1 April 2018, communication with it was lost and the spacecraft was temporarily untraceable. After regaining its track, efforts to re-establish communication with the satellite could not succeed.
Geostationary Transfer Orbit
1 Payload
2,140 kilograms
Agency
ISROPrice
$47.00 million
Rocket
Height: 51.7m
Payload to Orbit
LEO: 5,000 kg
GTO: 2,500 kg
Liftoff Thrust
7,887 Kilonewtons
Fairing
Diameter: 4m
Height: 7.8m
Stages
3
Strap-ons
4
12th
Mission
1st
Mission of 2018
64th
Mission
2nd
Mission of 2018
27th
Orbital launch attempt