Click to play videoNew Delhi: India on Monday successfully launched another communication satellite, INSAT 4B.
The Ariane-5 rocket, carrying INSAT-4B, had a perfect lift off from Kourou in French Guiana. Ariane-5 also shuttled the British Defence Ministry's Skynet 5A satellite.
INSAT-4B is equipped with 24 communications transponders and it will mainly boost Direct-to-Home television services in India.
The ISRO's Master Control Facility at Hassan in Karnataka started receiving signals from INSAT-4B minutes after it was put in space.
ISRO Chairman G Madhavan Nair described the launch as ''precise'' and successful. The indigenously built, 3025 kg satellite carried 12 high power Ku-band transponders and 12 C-band transponders.
The launch had been postponed on Sunday after a technical snag seven minutes before lift-off.
The anomaly relating to "water deluge system" that is intended to reduce the acoustics level for the safety of the launch pad prompted the commercial launch services provider Ariane space to put the countdown on a "temporary hold".
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