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- ISRO successfully launched its EOS-05 imaging satellite aboard the GSLV rocket, placing it into Geostationary Transfer Orbit on the vehicle's nineteenth flight.
- The satellite, India's first imaging satellite bound for geostationary orbit at 36,000 km, will use its own engines to reach its final position over the next few days and provide continuous real-time viewing of the same region for border surveillance, weather forecasting, cyclone tracking, disaster management, agriculture, and environmental monitoring.
- The mission succeeded where a 2021 attempt had failed due to a cryogenic stage anomaly, and it delivered the heaviest satellite yet for the GSLV at 2,367 kg.
- The win comes as a welcome boost for ISRO after two consecutive PSLV failures earlier in the year.
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- EOS-05's expected arrival in geostationary orbit over the next few days using its own engines.
- ISRO's six remaining launches planned this financial year, including the NVS-03 navigation satellite.
- Progress on the Gaganyaan programme, with three uncrewed missions targeted before the first crewed launch.
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V Narayanan
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“The first launch of the GSLV was with a payload of 1536 KGs. Since then we have gradually improved the performance of this vehicle by optimising the structural mass and improving the propulsion system and today we have injected the heaviest satellite - 2367 KGs- launched with this vehicle”
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…to a technical anomaly during the third Cryogenic Upper Stage ignition. Speaking after the launch, V Narayanan, Chairman, ISRO, emphasised ISRO’s lessons from previous missions and the gradual improvements it made. “ The first launch of the GSLV was with a payload of 1536 KGs. Since then we have gradually improved the performance of this vehicle by optimising the structural mass and improving the propulsion system and today we have injected the heaviest satellite - 2367 KGs- launched with this vehicle ,” he said. Narayanan added that ISRO has planned six more launches this financial year, including the critical NVS-03 navigation satellite. He also mentioned that the team is working vigorously on the Gaganyaan…
“The space sector has to grow. The private companies are not from a different country. It is our own people. It is our responsibility to handhold them and bring them to our stature”
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…on the importance of the private sector in India’s space ecosystem. The agency had recently invited private operators to run and maintain the under construction SSLV space port in Kulushekarpatanam near Thoothukudi. “ The space sector has to grow. The private companies are not from a different country. It is our own people. It is our responsibility to handhold them and bring them to our stature ” he said responding to a query on whether the private sector has required access to talent needed to carry out such operations Published on September 4, 2026…
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