A crowning achievement for India (and sadly people don't give much importance to it )

The launch of the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle-FO4 (GSLV) rocket carrying communication satellite INSAT-4CR blasted off from Sriharikota, south India, at 6: 20 p.m. local time Sunday.

The launch of the GSLV carrying INSAT-4CR was scheduled to liftoff at 4:21 p.m. local time. However, it had earlier been stopped several seconds before the blast off due to a "technical snag in parameters related to the launch," India media quoted sources in the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) as saying.

The rocket was on its designated path, and the performance was reported as normal, the ISRO said, adding that all parameters were functioning well.

The GSLV was to put into orbit INSAT-4CR, which carries 12 high-power Ku-band transponders for direct-to-home television services, video picture transmission and digital satellite newsgathering.


The Vice President of India, Shri Mohammad Hamid Asari has congratulated the space scientists and technologists involved in the successful launch from Sriharikota of the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle, GSLV-F04 that has lifted the high-powered INSAT-4CR communication satellite into space.




ISRO's Page on GSLV


THE GSLV or Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle is a complete indigenous development of Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) and puts India into an ultra elite clique of nation that has the technology to put geostationary orbit satellites.