GSAT-14

GSAT -14 is a commercial communications satellite of the Indian ISRO the GSAT series.

He was taken on January 5, 2014 at 10:48 UTC clock with a GSLV rocket from launch site Sriharikota into a transfer orbit with a perigee of 175 km, an apogee of 35,945 km and an inclination of 19.3 °. From there, the satellite reached its geostationary orbit using its own engines. It was the first successful launch with this launcher after a series of four failures. In this mission, there were problems. So the start was to take place in August, 2013, but resigned, among other things an equally inexplicably to start gone unnoticed as huge leak in the fuel tank of the second stage, in which leaked several hundred liters of hydrazine. The launch vehicle used had some modifications ( for example, better aerodynamics, and modified adapter intermediates ) from the previous GSLV models.

The three -axis stabilized satellite has six Ku-band, six extended C -band and two Ka - band transponders and one each 2.0 - equipped and 2.2 m antenna and to the position of 74 degrees East India provide telecommunications services such as education programs and telemedicine. It was built on the basis of the satellite bus I- 2K of ISRO and has a design life of 12 years.