{"id":9178,"date":"2022-10-25T01:17:37","date_gmt":"2022-10-24T19:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=9178"},"modified":"2025-06-30T12:07:27","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T06:37:27","slug":"indian-space-research-organisation-isros-heaviest-rocket-lvm3-m2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/indian-space-research-organisation-isros-heaviest-rocket-lvm3-m2\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)&#8217;s heaviest rocket LVM3-M2"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)&#8217;s heaviest rocket LVM3-M2:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>This mission is being undertaken as part of the commercial arrangement between New Space India Limited (NSIL) and m\/s Network Access Associates Limited (m\/s OneWeb Ltd), a U.K. based company.<\/li>\n<li>OneWeb is a joint venture between India\u2019s Bharti Enterprises and the U.K. government.<\/li>\n<li>This is OneWeb\u2019s 14th launch, bringing the constellation to 462 satellites. This launch represents more than 70% of its planned 648 Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite fleet that will deliver high-speed, low-latency connectivity worldwide.<\/li>\n<li>The 43.5 metre LVM3 weighing around 644 tonne carried 36 satellites weighing 5,796 kg or about 5.7 tonne.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Launch Vehicle Mark III (LVM3)\u00a0-M2:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has renamed the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) Mark -III as Launch Vehicle Mark-III, mainly to identify its task of placing satellites into a variety of orbits.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Launch Vehicle Mark III (LVM3)\u00a0-M2 is the dedicated commercial satellite mission of\u00a0<strong>New Space India Limited (NSIL), a Central Public Sector Enterprise (CPSE) under the Department of Space, Government of India.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The LVM3 rocket (earlier called the Geosynchronous Launch Vehicle Mark III or GSLV-MK3) can carry up to\u00a0<strong>8 tonnes into low earth\u00a0orbit (LEO-up to 1,200 km above the Earth).<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The rocket is a\u00a0<strong>three-stage launch vehicle<\/strong>\u00a0consisting of two solid propellant S200 strap-ons on its sides and core stage comprising L110 liquid stage and C25 cryogenic stage.<\/li>\n<li>The PSLV is much lighter and can carry between 1.4 and 1.75-tonne payloads.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source :\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/science\/isros-dedicated-commercial-satellite-mission-lvm3-m2oneweb-india-1-lifts-off\/article66046363.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Hindu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian Space Research Organisation is the national space agency of India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":9179,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9178","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}