Maiden orbital flight of India's GSLV Mk III heavy-lift rocket, carrying the experimental GSAT-19 communications satellite from Sriharikota into geostationary transfer orbit. The launch came two and a half years after a December 2014 suborbital test of the booster and core stages.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- GTO
- Geostationary transfer orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3.1 T
- Flight
- 1st
- of 8 Launch Vehicle Mark-3 (GSLV Mk III) flights
- Date and time
- 5 June 2017, 11:58 UTC
- Builder
- ISRO
- Launch site
- Satish Dhawan Space Centre Second Launch Pad, Satish Dhawan Space Centre, India
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2017-031
- Launches in 2017
- 33rd of 90
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