The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) successfully launched GSAT 6A communication satellite on board of GSLV-F08 rocket from Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh.
This was overall 12th GSLV flight (and fifth successful) and sixth flight with indigenously built cryogenic upper stage engine.
GSAT-6A is high power S-band communication satellite with a mission life of about 10 years. It was placed in Geosynchronous orbit of Earth.
It is most powerful home-made communication satellite till date.
It is similar to GSAT-6 which is a high power S-band communication satellite that was launched back in 2015
The S-band’s antenna of GSAT-6A was developed by ISRO’s Space Applications Centre, Ahmedabad.