At 4.57 pm on Thursday, ISRO’s GSLV-F09, conveying the South Asia Satellite (GSAT-9), was propelled from the Second Launch Pad (SLP) at Satish Dhawan Space Center, Sriharikota. The Rs 235-crore satellite, supported totally by India, will enhance calamity and media transmission interfaces between six South Asian Nations. Tending to the country through his month to month radio program Mann ki Baat, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said the satellite dispatch is tuned in to his administration’s comprehensive improvement plan, “sab ka saath sab ka vikas”. While Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan and Maldives are a piece of the program, Pakistan and Afghanistan quit.

5.21 pm: More tweets from our head administrator: “The support and nearness of these pioneers will include much more bliss in the hearts and psyches of our locale.

“We are an assembled group of South Asian nations, joined in our quest for peace, advance and success of our locale and the whole mankind.”

5.19 pm: Leaders from all the six taking an interest nations will hold a question and answer session by means of video around 5.30 pm.

Every one of the pioneers will partake and address the program by means of video conferencing at 5.30 PM tonight.

5.15 pm: It has been 17 minutes since the dispatch and we have our first complimentary message from none other than the PM himself. PM Modi tweeted: “I salute the group of researchers who buckled down for the effective dispatch of South Asia Satellite. We are exceptionally pleased with them. The noteworthy event has been improved with an amazement we have pioneers of South Asian countries going along with us in praising this dispatch.”

5.10 pm: Did Pakistan miss out by declining to be a piece of the South Asia Communication Satellite program? Specialists say they did as they don’t have the ability to pull off a satellite dispatch with a payload like the GSAT-9 mass.

5.05 pm: The fruitful keep running of India’s head space organization, ISRO, proceeds with yet another plume added to its top. Most as of late, ISRO set a record by putting more than 100 satellites in circle.

5.00 pm: Here are the primary pictures from the dispatch.

4.57 pm: We have lift off. The GSLV-F09 has all the earmarks of being taking after the preset direction with no noticeable hitches.

4.55 pm: We are only a couple of minutes from liftoff. The commencement will start soon. Dispatch time: 4.57 pm.

4.50 pm: The dispatch will be an enormous lift to PM Modi’s “neighborhood first approach”. It is set to impel territorial collaboration between SAARC-part nations to new levels.

4.45 pm: Other included advantages and uses incorporate mapping regular assets, tele prescription and training.

4.40 pm: The satellite is outfitted with 12 KU transponders that will help in enhancing correspondence between nations. The six partaking nations in the space program will be offered access to no less than two transponders.

4.30 pm: The GSAT-9 weighs 2230 kgs and was implicit three years. It will have a mission life of over 12 years.

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