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GSLV-Mk III: Isro to launch India's most powerful rocket today

The 25 and a half-hour countdown for GSAT-19 communication satellite began at 3.58 pm on Sunday

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The fully integrated GSLV Mk-III-D1 carrying GSAT-19 at the second launch pad. Photo: Isro

T E NarasimhanRaghu Krishnan Chennai
The Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) is set to launch its most powerful rocket carrying high-tech communication satellite on Monday. 

The Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV-Mk III), nicked named ‘fat boy’, has a capacity to hurl four-tonne communication satellites into a higher orbit. It also has the potential to carry a 10-tonne capsule for a manned mission to space.

The 25 and a half-hour countdown for GSLV-Mk III carrying GSAT-19 communication satellite began at 3.58 pm on Sunday.

If it succeeds, a single GSAT-19 satellite will be equivalent of having a constellation of six to seven older varieties of communication