ISRO’s 51.7-metre giant gets ready to put India’s eye in the sky

Sriharikota: ISRO has commenced the countdown for the launch of a state-of-the-art Earth observation spacecraft on Friday, which will be India's first ever imaging satellite from the Geosynchronous orbit, official sources said.

The 27-hour countdown started at 23.30 hours on Wednesday for the GSLV-F17/EOS-05 mission and the 51.7 metre tall rocket is set to lift off at the appointed time of 2.55 AM on September 4 from the second launch pad at Satish Dhawan Space Centre, about 135 km from Chennai.

GSLV-F17 is the 19th flight of India's Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV), ISRO added.