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GSAT-31 was built by the Indian Space Research Organisation and is designed to last more than 15 years.
GSAT-31 joins ISRO’s fleet of 18 communications satellites and provides continuity of service for the Insat-4CR and Insat-4A satellites.
ISRO’s GSAT-31 will provide Ku-band coverage of the Indian subcontinent.
Ariane 5 will carry two telecom satellites: Arabsat’s SaudiGEOSat-1/Hellas Sat 4 and the Indian Space Research Organisation’s GSAT-31.
The three missions that did not take place in 2018—the Arabsat-ISRO Ariane 5, OneWeb’s first Soyuz, and the Italian Space Agency’s Vega launch of Prisma—are on Arianespace’s 2019 manifest.
The 2019-02-05 Ariane 5 launch will carry Arabsat’s Saudi GeoSat-1/Hellas Sat-4 and ISRO’s GSAT-31 to geostationary transfer orbit.
ISRO’s GSAT-11 launched on an Ariane 5 in December alongside the Korea Aerospace Research Institute’s GEO-Kompsat-2A weather satellite.
ISRO originally scheduled GSAT-11 to launch in May 2018 but called off the mission to inspect the satellite.
A Russian Soyuz rocket launched 73 satellites six months after ISRO’s 2017 mission, though a few were unresponsive after launch.
India’s ISRO launched 104 satellites on a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle in February 2017, including 88 for U.S. company Planet.
An Indian Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle launched the HysIS hyperspectral imaging satellite and 30 small satellites as secondary payloads on 2018-11-29 from the Satish Dhawan Space Center in Sriharikota at 11:28 p.m. Eastern.
Intelsat-38/Azerspace-2 was originally due to launch in late May but was delayed when ISRO withdrew the GSAT-11 co-passenger for additional inspections.
On 2018-07-10, RBC Signals formed a partnership with Antrix Corp., the commercial arm of the Indian space agency ISRO, to provide space communications services to satellite operators.
A jointly developed synthetic aperture radar mission between NASA and ISRO underwent a change in scope following discussions by an interagency working group.
On 2018-04-24, Arianespace canceled an Ariane 5 launch after the Indian Space Research Organisation recalled its GSAT-11 satellite to an ISRO test facility in Bangalore for additional technical checks.
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) launched the PSLV-C40 mission on 12 January 2018.