GSLV-F09 carried GSAT-9, India's South Asia Satellite, a Ku-band communications spacecraft gifted to SAARC neighbors (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives, Nepal, Sri Lanka) to boost regional connectivity.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- GTO
- Geostationary transfer orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.2 T
- Flight
- 5th
- of 13 GSLV Mk. II flights
- Date and time
- 5 May 2017, 11:27 UTC
- Rocket
- GSLV Mk. II
- Builder
- ISRO
- Launch site
- Satish Dhawan Space Centre Second Launch Pad, Satish Dhawan Space Centre, India
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2017-024
- Launches in 2017
- 25th of 90
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