Communications
satellite INSAT-3E has completed its life and gone out of service. Built to
last 15 years, it has completed ten-and-a-half years in orbit.
The third-generation satellite was launched in
September 2003 with 36 transponders — 24 C-band and 12 extended C-band
transponders — but only 25 of them have been working since 2009.
The space agency is getting set to launch IRNSS-1B, second of its seven
regional navigation satellites, on April 4.
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