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Space programs and missions · A guided course
Cryogenic propulsion and the handoff from launch to service
Follow India’s GSLV Mark I/II program through transfer orbits, cryogenic-stage development, failure investigations and the spacecraft work that continues after launch.
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GSLV-D6 launches GSAT-6 on August 27, 2015. The spacecraft remains enclosed; this is ascent context, not communications commissioning. Credit: Indian Space Research Organisation. License: CC BY-SA 4.0. Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GSLV_Mk.II_D6_lifting_off_with_GSAT-6.jpg
Indian Space Research Organisation · Image source · CC BY-SA 4.0Your place in the bigger picture
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The GSLV program
Cryogenic propulsion and the handoff from launch to service
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