- GISAT-1, the country’s first earth imaging satellite in a geostationary orbit, will be launched on the evening of March 5 from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota.
- The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said that its medium-lift GSLV launcher numbered F10 would orbit the 2,275-kg spacecraft.
- GISAT-1 will facilitate almost realtime observation of the Indian subcontinent under cloud-free conditions and at frequent intervals.
