Chennai, Feb 6 (UNI) India’s 40th Communication Satellite GSAT-31, weighing 2,535 kg, was successfully launched on Wednesday morning by the Ariane-5 launch vehicle from Kourou in French Guiana. Reports here said about 42 minutes after lift off at 0231 hrs,the GSAT-31 was separated and injected into Geosynchronous orbit. GSAT-31, which went as a lower passenger of Ariane-5, was a telecommunication satellite designed and made by ISRO that would provide communications services in Ku-band for at least 15 years. GSAT-31 will essentially help bridge the digital divide in the Indian subcontinent as part of an ambitious Indian space program, whose objectives were to develop India, while pursuing science research and planetary exploration.
GSAT-31 successfully launched from Kourou
