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INSAT-3E launched successfully

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The European Ariane launch vehicle lifts off into space with the Indian communication satellite, INSAT-3E from Kaorou, in French Guyana on Sunday. - PTI

BANGALORE, SEPT. 28. INSAT- 3E, the communication satellite of the Indian Space Research Organisation, was launched successfully from a spaceport in Kourou, French Guyana, by a European Ariane 5 launch vehicle early on Sunday.

An ISRO press release said the lift-off occurred at 4.44 a.m. IST and the satellite was injected into a geosynchronous transfer orbit (GTO) at 5.14 a.m. IST about which time ISRO's master control facility in Hassan district of Karnataka acquired the first signals. Initial checks indicated that the satellite's functioning was normal.

In the transfer orbit, the satellite goes round the earth once in 10 hours, 50 minutes. At its nearest point (perigee) to the earth, the satellite will be 649 km away and at the farthest point (apogee) it will be 35,923 km away, inclined at an angle of seven degrees to the equator.

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