Insat 4B to be dedicated to nation on June 8
President A P J Abdul Kalam would dedicate the INSAT-4B satellite, aimed at boosting Direct-to-Home (DTH) broadcast services, to the nation on June eight, Indian Space Research Organisation Chairman G Madhavan Nair said on Monday.
By PTI |
BANGALORE: President A P J Abdul Kalam would dedicate the INSAT-4B satellite, aimed at boosting Direct-to-Home (DTH) broadcast services, to the nation on June eight, Indian Space Research Organisation Chairman G Madhavan Nair said on Monday.
The function would take place at ISRO's Master Control Facility at Hassan in Karnatka.
Insat 4CR, which is a replacement for the unsuccessful Insat 4C which was lost in July last, would be launched in September 2007, Nair told reporters after the launching of the interactive VSAT channel of Visvesvaraya Technological University.
Insat 4B and Insat 4CR would allow ISRO to fully meet its commitment for clients' DTH transponder capacity.
On the moon mission, he said work to build the spacecraft was currently on.
Work was also in progress regarding the launch of two commercial satellites, he said.
On EDUSAT, he said it had caught up and several educational institutions were utilising the facility.
Earlier, at the function to launch the interactive VSAT channel of EDUSAT network, he said nearly 10,000 schools had been covered and Haryana had added 9,000 to the list recently.
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