GSAT-15 Current Affairs, GK & News
100% FDI in DTH
The Union Cabinet recently approved revised guidelines for Direct to Home (DTH) broadcasting services. The guidelines allow 100% Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in DTH. Also, it has increased the license period to twenty years. Earlier, it was ten years. What are the new Guidelines? The license fee has been revised to 8% from 10% of ..
Month: Current Affairs - December, 2020
Category: India Nation & States Current Affairs
Topics: Airtel • Dish TV • DTH Television Services • GSAT • GSAT-10 • GSAT-15 • Sun Direct • Tata Sky • Union Cabinet
Communication satellite GSAT-15 successfully launched from French Guiana
Indigenously developed Communication satellite GSAT-15 of Indian Space Research Organisation was successfully launched from the spaceport of Kourou in French Guiana. It was launched by Ariane-5 VA-227 rocket (launch vehicle) of Arianespace into a Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit (GTO) along with Arabsat-6B (BADR-7) satellite of Airbus Defence and Space. About GSAT-15 GSAT-15 is a high power ..
Month: Current Affairs - November, 2015
Topics: Communication Satellite • Current Affairs 2016 • French Guiana • GAGAN system • GSAT-15 • ISRO • Science and Technology • Space technology
GAGAN to start serving air navigation by mid-2013
Country’s space based GPS augmentation system GAGAN will start serving air navigation by mid 2013. What is GAGAN? It is GPS Aided Geo Augmented Navigation (GAGAN) meant for the advancement of air navigation. The system was launched as a payload with GSAT-8 in 2011. It was also launched with recently launched GSAT-10. Advantages of GAGAN: ..
Topics: Aids to navigation • Global air-traffic management • Global Positioning System • GNSS augmentation • GPS-aided GEO augmented navigation • GSAT • GSAT-10 • GSAT-15 • Navigation • Satellite navigation systems • Spacecraft • Spaceflight