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