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The Indian Space Research Organisation launched the LVM3-M6 rocket with the BlueBird Block-2 mission spacecraft connected Wednesday (December 24, 2025) from the Satish Dhawan Space Center successful Sriharikota.
The ngo is being undertaken arsenic portion of the commercialized statement signed betwixt NewSpace India Ltd (NSIL) and US-based AST SpaceMobile (AST and Science, LLC). NewSpace India Ltd is the commercialized limb of ISRO.
The historical ngo volition deploy the next-generation connection outer designed to supply high-speed cellular broadband straight to smartphones worldwide.
Wednesday’s motorboat is the ninth for the LVM3 rocket, and the 3rd commercialized mission.
Heaviest payload successful LEO
Weighing 6,100 kg, the connection outer would beryllium the heaviest payload to beryllium placed into the Low Earth Orbit (LEO) successful LVM3 motorboat history, the ISRO said.
The erstwhile heaviest was the LVM3-M5 Communication Satellite 03, weighing astir 4,400 kg that was successfully launched by ISRO connected November 2.
According to the Indian abstraction agency, the 43.5 metre gangly LVM3, besides known arsenic Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle MkIII, is simply a 3 signifier rocket with a cryogenic motor designed and developed by ISRO’s Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre.
In erstwhile missions, the LVM3 rocket has successfully launched Chandrayaan-2, Chandrayaan-3 and 2 OneWeb missions carrying 72 satellites.
(With inputs from PTI)
