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ISRO successfully lifts off GSLV-F05, launches INSAT-3DR in orbit

| | Sep 08, 2016, at 10:47 pm
Sriharikota, Sept 08 (IBNS) After a delay of 40 minutes, the Indian Space Research Organisation's GSLV-F05 rocket, which carries the INSAT-3DR advanced weather satellite, lifted off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at 4.50 pm at Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh on Thursday and then the satellite was placed in the orbit successfully.

According to ISRO, the largest rocket of India with the indigenously developed cryogenic upper stage as its fourth stage, placed the satellite in the orbit and the mission is a grand success.

"We have achieved the right orbit," said ISRO director A S Kiran Kumar

The satellite weighs  2,211-kg, in the Geostationary Transfer Orbit.

INSAT-3DR  will provide meteorological services to India using a 6-channel imager and a 19-channel sounder, as well as search and rescue information and message relay for terrestrial data collection platforms.

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