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The weather satellite INSAT-3DS will be launched into space aboard the Geosynchronous Launch Vehicle (GSLV) this evening, in what is being touted as a key mission for ISRO’s ‘naughty boy’ rocket.
The Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV), which is scheduled to lift off with the INSAT-3DS satellite from Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh at 5.35 pm on Saturday, was former chairman of the Indian Space Research Organization since The rocket failed in six of its 15 flights – a failure rate of 40 percent.
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The last GSLV launch on May 29, 2023 was successful, but the previous one – on August 12, 2021 – was unsuccessful.
GSLV-F14 will lift off from the Satish Dhawan Space Center at Sriharikota, ISRO said. It will be the rocket’s 16th mission overall and its 10th flight using a domestically developed cryogenic engine.
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The success of the mission will be crucial for GSLV, which is slated to launch the NISAR Earth observation satellite, jointly developed by NASA and ISRO, later this year.
NISAR will map the entire globe in 12 days and provide “spatially and temporally consistent” data to understand changes in Earth’s ecosystems, ice mass, sea level rise and natural hazards such as earthquakes and tsunamis, according to ISRO.
