ISRO 100th mission LIVE: Countdown for ISRO’s satellite launch begins at Sriharikota

In this image released by @isro via X on Monday, Jan. 27, 2025, ISRO's GSLV-F15 all set to launch the NVS-02 satellite on Jan. 29, from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh. This will mark ISRO's 100th launch from the space centre.

In this image released by @isro via X on Monday, Jan. 27, 2025, ISRO’s GSLV-F15 all set to launch the NVS-02 satellite on Jan. 29, from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh. This will mark ISRO’s 100th launch from the space centre.
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The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will oversee the historic 100th launch from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) in Sriharikota with the GSLV-F15 mission in the early hours of Wednesday (January 29, 2025). 

The 27-hour countdown commenced on Tuesday from this spaceport. The key applications the satellite would be used for are terrestrial, aerial and maritime navigation, precision agriculture, fleet management, location based services in mobile devices, orbit determination for satellites, Internet-of-Things (IoT) based applications, emergency and timing services, ISRO said.

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The Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) with indigenous Cryogenic upper stage in its 17th flight, carrying the navigation satellite NVS-02 is scheduled for lift-off at 6.23 a.m. on January 29 from the second launch pad. 

The first launch, on August 10, 1979, was the experimental flight of Satellite Launch Vehicle-3 (SLV-3 E10) carrying the Rohini Technology Payload, which was only partially successful according to the space agency.

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