ISRO’s GSLV-F08 rocket carrying communications satellite GSAT-6A lifts off from the spaceport at Sriharikota on March 29, 2018. | Photo Credit: S. R. Raghunathanmore-inThe Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) successfully placed a communication satellite GSAT-6A in a geosynchronous transfer orbit. The GSAT-6A is a communication satellite that will complement the GSAT-6, which is already in orbit. GSLV-F08 taking off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota carrying a communication satellite GSAT-6A https://t.co/1KjRqUpToR — The Hindu (@the_hindu) March 29, 2018The ISRO team at Mission Control appeared pensive waiting for the indigenous cryogenic upper stage to fire and take the satellite into its initial orbit. The satellite will be placed at a height of 36,000 km in a geostationary orbit, and the antenna will be unfurled in the coming days.

Source: The Hindu March 29, 2018 11:52 UTC