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  • Photos: India’s GSLV fires off the launch pad

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    Photo credit: ISRO India’s Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle climbed away from Sriharikota Island on the country’s east coast Thursday, delivering a weather satellite into orbit and achieving the third success in a row for the previously-troubled booster. The all-Indian 161-foot-tall (49-meter) rocket lifted off from the Second Launch Pad, one of two orbital-class facilities at…

  • GSLV puts advanced Indian weather satellite in orbit

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    Updated at 9 a.m. EDT (1300 GMT) Sept. 8 after successful launch. The GSLV lifted off at 1120 GMT (7:20 a.m. EDT) Thursday. Credit: ISRO India’s Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle blasted off Thursday with a meteorological observatory destined to track storms and tropical cyclones from a perch more than 22,000 miles above Earth. The Insat…