<p>T.K. Anuradha, the first woman ever to be the satellite project director at the country's space agency, specialises in satellite checkout systems - electronic checking of satellite's performance in space, an ISRO official told IANS.<br /><br />Anuradha, in her 50s, has been with the Indian Space Research Organisation for three decades now, the official said. She heads the GSAT-12 project at the ISRO Space Centre at Bangalore.<br /><br />The Rs.80 crore GSAT-12 has 12 extended C-band transponders - automatic receivers and transmitters for communication and broadcast of signals.<br /><br />The satellite with a life span of about eight years will augment transponder capacity of the Indian National Satellite (Insat) system. It is also expected to serve the Very Small Aperture Terminal (V-SAT) sector. VSATs are used to transmit data like point of sale transactions or to provide satellite internet access.<br /><br />It will also be useful for various communication services like tele-education, tele-medicine and for village resource centres.<br /></p>
<p>T.K. Anuradha, the first woman ever to be the satellite project director at the country's space agency, specialises in satellite checkout systems - electronic checking of satellite's performance in space, an ISRO official told IANS.<br /><br />Anuradha, in her 50s, has been with the Indian Space Research Organisation for three decades now, the official said. She heads the GSAT-12 project at the ISRO Space Centre at Bangalore.<br /><br />The Rs.80 crore GSAT-12 has 12 extended C-band transponders - automatic receivers and transmitters for communication and broadcast of signals.<br /><br />The satellite with a life span of about eight years will augment transponder capacity of the Indian National Satellite (Insat) system. It is also expected to serve the Very Small Aperture Terminal (V-SAT) sector. VSATs are used to transmit data like point of sale transactions or to provide satellite internet access.<br /><br />It will also be useful for various communication services like tele-education, tele-medicine and for village resource centres.<br /></p>