Mission type | Communications |
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Operator | ISRO |
COSPAR ID | 2011-034A |
SATCAT no. | 37746 |
Mission duration | Planned: 8 years Duration: 11 years, 8 months, 8 days |
Spacecraft properties | |
Launch mass | 1,412 kilograms (3,113 lb) |
Dry mass | 559 kilograms (1,232 lb)[1] |
Start of mission | |
Launch date | 15 July 2011, 11:18 | UTC
Rocket | PSLV-XL C17 |
Launch site | Satish Dhawan SLP |
Contractor | ISRO |
End of mission | |
Disposal | Graveyard orbit |
Deactivated | March 2023 |
Orbital parameters | |
Reference system | Geocentric |
Regime | Geostationary |
Longitude | 48°E (Relocated: 19 Mar 2021.) 83°E (till 9 Feb 2021) |
Perigee altitude | 35,782 kilometres (22,234 mi) |
Apogee altitude | 35,803 kilometres (22,247 mi) |
Inclination | 0.01 degrees |
Period | 23.93 hours |
Epoch | 25 December 2013, 01:49:32 UTC[2] |
Transponders | |
Band | 12 Extended C band |
GSAT-12 was a communication satellite designed and developed by the Indian Space Research Organisation. It was the second satellite to be launched and placed on a GTO using PSLV.[3]