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The countdown for the second commercial launch of India's largest rocket LVM3 began at 8:30am on Saturday, at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, an official at Indian Space Research Organisation told WION. During the 24-and-a-half-hour countdown, the final health checks of the rocket and satellite systems and fuel filling into the liquid and cryogenic stages of the rocket will be carried out. 

It was SSLV-D2s second developmental flight into orbit an earth observation satellite-07 (EOS-07) weighing about 156.3 kg and two others - 10.2 kg, Janus-1 belonging to ANTARIS of the US and 8.7 kg AzaadiSat-2 belonging to Space Kidz India, Chennai.

India’s first private space mission is set to launch on November 18, with the Vikram-S rocket scheduled for lift off from Sriharikota.

Vikram S Rocket: The Indian space sector today took a giant leap as ISRO successfully launched the countrys first privately developed rocket -Vikram S rocket- by Skyroot Aerospace.

Vikram-S Launch LIVE: India is etching history with the launch of its first private-sector rocket Vikram-S, a suborbital vehicle developed by Skyroot Aerospace. The rocket will be launched by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota carrying three CubeSats at 11:30 am IST under the mission named 'Prarambh' (The beginning).

Skyroot Aerospaces Vikram-S will soar to an altitude of 81 km after its launch from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota.

The Vikram-S will be powered by the Kalam 80 propulsion system that will ignite the three-stage rocket to space.

ISRO rocket launch: Earlier, at the end of 24-hour countdown, the 43.5 metre tall rocket soared majestically in a prefixed time at 12:07 am on Sunday from the second launch pad at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre here.

In a historic maiden commercial flight, an Indian heavy-lift rocket GSLV MkIII - renamed for this mission as LVM3 M2, successfully orbited satellites of UK-based OneWeb.

The space agency’s heaviest rocket, LVM3-M2, placed the satellites into orbit 75 minutes after liftoff.