{"id":199531,"date":"2022-08-10T18:39:10","date_gmt":"2022-08-10T13:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=199531"},"modified":"2022-08-10T18:39:10","modified_gmt":"2022-08-10T13:09:10","slug":"indian-army-conducts-exercise-skylight-to-test-resilience-of-its-satellite-communications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/indian-army-conducts-exercise-skylight-to-test-resilience-of-its-satellite-communications\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Army conducts Exercise Skylight to test resilience of its satellite communications"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article <\/span><b>\u201c<\/b><b>Indian Army conducts Exercise Skylight to test resilience of its satellite communications<\/b><b>\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in<\/span><b> The Hindu <\/b>on<b> 6th August 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Indian Army has conducted a major pan-India Exercise codenamed \u2018Skylight\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is Exercise Skylight?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><b>Conducted by: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Indian Army<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Aim:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> To test the operational readiness and robustness of its satellite communication systems in the event of an attack by an adversary.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>Does the Indian Army have its own dedicated satellite?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Indian Army uses the services of a number of ISRO satellites that connect hundreds of communication terminals of various types.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Unlike the Indian Air Force and the Navy, the Indian Army currently does not have a dedicated satellite.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>Indian Army Satellite by 2025<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Defence Acquisition Council has cleared a proposal for a <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">GSAT-7B communications satellite. With this, t<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">he Indian Army is on course to get its own satellite by December 2025.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Note:<\/b> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">GSAT 7 satellites are advanced satellites developed by the Indian Space Research Organization(ISRO) to meet the communication needs of the defence services.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cIndian Army conducts Exercise Skylight to test resilience of its satellite communications\u201d published in The Hindu on 6th August 2022. What is the News? Indian Army has conducted a major pan-India Exercise codenamed \u2018Skylight\u2019. What is Exercise Skylight? Conducted by: Indian Army Aim: To test the operational&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/indian-army-conducts-exercise-skylight-to-test-resilience-of-its-satellite-communications\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Indian Army conducts Exercise Skylight to test resilience of its satellite communications<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,7965,9],"tags":[10498],"class_list":["post-199531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-miscellaneous-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}