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ISRO has said its newly launched communications satellite, GSat-8, has been placed in a geosynchronous orbit of a nearly 24-hour period and has almost reached its final slot over India.
In-orbit tests of its payloads will begin on June 1. GSat-8 carries 24 Ku-band transponders for DTH, VSAT and broadcast services. The first navigational payload, GAGAN, will be checked from the new navigation control centre at Kundanahalli here The satellite currently is some 35,500 km in sky at 47 degrees East longitude.
In the coming days it would drift to settle at 55 degrees E. It would be ready for service in a month, a release said on Wednesday.
Scientists handling GSat-8 from the Hassan Master Control Facility have deployed both the solar arrays to generate solar power.
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