Sriharikota: The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is all set to launch the Indian Navy’s GSAT 7R (CMS-03) liaison satellite on Sunday evening at 5:26 PM today from the second launch pad of Satish Dhawan Space Station in Andhra Pradesh's Sriharikota.
This indigenously ripened satellite will be the heaviest liaison satellite that India has overly had, with a weight of well-nigh 4,400 kg. The launch will be live streamed on ISRO's official YouTube waterworks at 5:26 this evening.
Live launch info from ISRO
Launch Day for #LVM3M5. India’s heavy-lift rocket launches #CMS03 today at 17:26 IST.
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— ISRO (@isro) November 2, 2025How will it help the Indian Navy?
It will make the Navy’s liaison from space stronger and help it alimony largest track of the maritime domain sensation capabilities with the ethnic state-of-the-art components. The satellite uses many ethnic state-of-the-art components to fit exactly what the Indian Navy needs for its work, the Indian Navy said. “This satellite is India’s heaviest liaison satellite so far, with a weight of increasingly than 4,400 kg. It has many wide parts made in India to meet the Indian Navy’s needs,” the Indian Navy stated.
What areas will it cover?
CMS-03 is a satellite that sends signals in many bands. It will imbricate a large sea zone and moreover the land of India, as per India's national space organ ISRO.
Which rocket will launch it?
The well-known LVM3 rocket will take it up. This same rocket helped India land on the Moon’s South Pole with the Chandrayaan-3 trip. This will be its fifth working flight. “CMS-03, at well-nigh 4,400 kg, will be the heaviest liaison satellite sent to Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit (GTO) from India. The last flight of LVM3 carried the Chandrayaan-3 mission, which made India the first nation to land near the Moon’s south pole,” ISRO said in its note.
The rocket was put together surpassing and has stayed on the pad since October 26 for checks surpassing launch. The LVM3-M5 flight will follow 8 steps. The CMS-03 will leave the rocket at a height of well-nigh 179 km, moving at virtually 10 km per second. The rocket stands 43.5 metres tall and weighs 642 tonnes at lift-off. It has three stages of fuel to push the satellite to the geosynchronous transfer orbit (GTO).
