ISRO Launches Record-Heavy BlueBird Satellite on Christmas Eve
India’s space program celebrated a historic Christmas Eve when the ISRO launched its heavy-lift rocket LVM3. The mission carried the heaviest foreign satellite ever sent to space from Indian territory. The mission lifted off smoothly from the Second Launch Pad at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota at 8:54 am IST on December 24.