ISRO has successfully launched its latest communication satellite GSAT-29, which was put in Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit by Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle Mark III D2 (GSLV-Mk III D2).
It was launched from Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh.
GSLV-Mk III D2 is India’s 5th generation heavy-lift rocket, which launched GSAT-29 weighing 3,423 kg making it heaviest satellite launched in that orbit by an Indian launch vehicle.
The GSLV Mk III is the designated rocket for India’s first human spaceflight proposed for 2022 and Chandrayaan-2 in January 2019.
It carries Ka and Ku band transponders that will provide communication services to remote places in the North East and Jammu and Kashmir.