Countdown for ISRO's most powerful rocket starts today

June 04, 2017 11:03

The Indian Space Research Organisation is planning to launch a mega rocket, the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle Mark III, or the GSLV Mk III, this Monday that will take India one step closer to sending its own astronauts in space.

The vehicle will be launched from the agency's headquarters in Andhra Pradesh's Sriharikota at 5 pm tomorrow.

The GSLV Mk III weighs the equivalent of the weight of five fully-loaded Boeing Jumbo

Jets or as much as 200 fully grown elephants.

Former ISRO chairman K Kasturirangan, the man who conceived the GSLV Mk-III, confirms it will be India's vehicle to ferry Indians into space.

This would be the first developmental flight of the heavy lift launch vehicle GSLV Mark-III that can carry 4-ton class satellites into the 36000 kilometer geostationary orbits.

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