Isro's GSLV-Mark III Lifts Off With Unmanned Crew Module

India's heaviest test rocket with an experimental crew module blasted off from the spaceport in Sriharikota Thursday morning.

Precisely at 9.30am IST, the 630-tonne Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle-Mark III (GSLV-Mark III) standing 43.43 metre tall freed itself from the second launch pad holds and with a reverberating deep throated roar, it rose into the sky.

With a thick orange flame at its tail, the expendable rocket ascended towards the heavens with one way ticket as its design life span is just around five minutes.

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