The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) launched Successfully India's heavy rocket Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle-Development 5 (GSLV-D5) from the spaceport at Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh today at 4.18 pm .
The launch of GSLV-D5 with the "indigenous engine" is crucial for India as it seeks to prove the design, realisation and sustained firing of its indigenous built cryogenic engine after two back-to-back failures of the GSLV flights in 2010 — the first, with an indigenous cryogenic engine, on April 15 and the next, with a Russian cryogenic engine, on December 25.
The last GSLV launch on August 19, 2013 was called of minutes before the take-off due to leakage of liquid fuel from the rocket’s second stage, wetting the first stage and the four strap-on boosters around it.