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RE: Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle

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GSLV-D3 launch fails

India's GSLV-D3 rocket, powered for the first time by an indigenous cryogenic engine, blasted off on time here on Thursday with a GSAT-4 satellite. But there was tension minutes later as the rocket stopped emitting signals.
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The 29-hour countdown for the lift-off of India's Geo-synchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV-D3) is proceeding satisfactorily for the launch to take place from Sriharikota on April 15 at 4.27 p.m. The countdown began at 11.27 a.m. on Wednesday, April 14.
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There is an air of expectancy at Sriharikota even as the Geo-synchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV-D3) stands gleaming in off-white and grey on the beachside launch pad of the island. It was fitted together at the towering Vehicle Assembly Building and moved to the pad on April 7. The vehicle, 49 metres tall and weighing 419 tonnes, was married up with the satellite GSAT-4 earlier. When the vehicle lifts off at 4.27 p.m. on April 15, it will be a major riposte to the United States' technology denial tactics.
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ISRO set to test first indigenous rocket engine on 15 April

India's geosynchronous satellite launch vehicle (GSLV-D3) will have a home-grown cryogenic stage engine, powered by liquefied oxygen and hydrogen, placing it in the league of five nations - along with the US, Russia, Japan and China - that own this restricted technology
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Things are getting set for the lift-off of the GSLV-D3 (Geo-synchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle - Development flight 3) from Sriharikota on April 15 around 4.30 p.m. The three stages of the gigantic vehicle have already been stacked up in the sophisticated Vehicle Assembly Building in the second launch pad on the seashore. It will put in orbit an advanced communication satellite called GSAT-4.
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ISRO is preparing to launch a geosynchronous satellite launch vehicle (GSLV-D3), powered for the first time by a home-made cryogenic engine, from Sriharikota spaceport this month, its chief K Radhakrishnan said on Friday.
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ISRO rocket test fails

A static ground test of a core stage of a new-generation heavyweight rocket for the future, planned by the Indian Space Research Organisation, has failed, the space agency announced today.
The liquid-fuelled core stage of the GSLV-Mk3 rocket was to fire for 200 seconds during the ground test at ISROs Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre in Mahendragiri, Tamil Nadu, but was stopped after 150 seconds, ISRO sources said.
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GSLV-Mark III

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RE: Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle