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Make in India- ISRO GSLV Mark-3 space launcher

ISRO GSLV Mark-3 ( Image credits- Wikimedia Commons / ISRO) In continuation of our weekly series to celebrate the Indian Government's "Make in India" initiative, we look at the GSLV Mark-3, India's newest a satellite launcher that is capable of launching 4 tonnes of satellite to the geostationary orbit. The launcher has been indigenously by India and when it becomes operational somewhere in later half of this decade, it will propel India and ISRO to the very top of the group in the world and also potentially garner billions of dollars of international business in satellite launch market. GSLV Mark-3 The GSLV-III or Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle Mark III  is a launch vehicle developed by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). It is intended to launch satellites into geostationary orbit and as a launcher for an Indian crew vehicle. The GSLV-III features an Indian cryogenic third stage and a higher payload capacity than the current

GSAT-6 slated for March launch ( Source- The Hindu)

GSAT ( Image Credits- ISRO) Source- The Hindu GSAT-6, the advanced communication satellite that got ISRO’s arm Antrix Corporation embroiled in a controversy with erstwhile partner Devas Multimedia P Ltd in 2011, is slated for a March 2015 launch. The S-band GSAT-6 satellite with five special transponders for multimedia services is “all done”, integrated and should start thermovacuum tests in late November, according to ISRO Satellite Centre’s Director, S.K.Shivakumar, whose centre readies all Indian spacecraft in Bangalore. The 2,000-odd-kg satellite is to be launched on a GSLV launcher from Sriharikota. It was conceived in 2005 along with a follow-on GSAT-6A. The Centre cancelled the contract with Devas in February 2011, reserved GSAT-6 for military use; thereby hangs a hefty arbitration case pressed by Devas in The Hague. Starting with GSAT-16 on December 5, ISRO has lined up a series of communication and Earth observation satellites over the next two or three y

India to launch unmanned crew module in December ( Source- The Economic Times)

GSLV ( Image Credits- ISRO) Source- The Economic Times India will launch an unmanned crew module in December onboard a heavy rocket to test its re-entry into the atmosphere for the country's future maiden human space flight, the space agency chief said Thursday. "We will send an unmanned crew module on the experimental GSLV-Mark III rocket in December and test its re-entry into the earth's atmosphere for a human space flight plan in future," Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chairman K. Radhakrishnan told reporters here on the margins of an engineers conclave. Weighing 3.6 tonnes, the crew module will be put into space orbit 100-120 km away in a satellite and brought back to earth for checking its re-entry characteristics when carrying two Indian astronauts in the proposed human space flight. "Though the actual human space flight will be in an orbit around earth at a height of 270 km for a week, the experimental flight with the crew