Countdown begins for launch of Isro’s GSAT-6A onboard GSLV Mk II

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Countdown begins for launch of Isro’s GSAT-6A onboard GSLV Mk II
U Tejonmayam | TNN | Updated: Mar 28, 2018, 14:48 IST
Highlights

• GSLV Mk II carrying GSAT-6A will take off from the second launch pad at Satish Dhawan Space Centre at 4.56pm on Thursday.
• This will be the GSLV's 12th flight and sixth flight with indigenous cryogenic stage.
• GSAT-6A, weighing 2140kg, is a high power S-band communication satellite.

GSLV (file photo)
CHENNAI: The countdown for the launch of the Indian Space Research Organisation’s communication satellite GSAT-6A, onboard GSLV Mk II rocket, began at Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota at 1.56pm on Wednesday.
The mission readiness review committee and launch authorisation board cleared the 27-hour countdown activity.

 

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Nice, good luck to isro