Orbited GSAT-6A, a roughly 2,000 kg S-band communications satellite for the Indian armed forces; ISRO lost contact with it during orbit-raising after a power failure, before it reached geostationary orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- GTO
- Geostationary transfer orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.2 T
- Flight
- 6th
- of 13 GSLV Mk. II flights
- Date and time
- 29 March 2018, 11:26 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
- 2018-027
- Launches in 2018
- 27th of 114
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