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LVM3
Indian expendable medium-lift launch vehicle, developed by ISRO
LVM3
The Launch Vehicle Mark-3 or LVM3 (previously referred as the GSLV Mk III) is a three-stage medium-lift launch vehicle developed by ISRO. Primarily designed to launch communication satellites into geostationary orbit, it is also due to launch crewed missions under the Indian Human Spaceflight Programme. LVM3 has a higher payload capacity than its predecessor, GSLV. After several delays and a sub-orbital test flight on 18 December 2014, ISRO successfully conducted the first orbital test launch of LVM3 on 5 June 2017 from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre. The total development cost of the project was ₹2,962.78 crore (equivalent to ₹49 billion or US$510 million in 2026). In June 2018, the Union Cabinet approved ₹4,338 crore (equivalent to ₹63 billion or US$660 million in 2026) to build 10 LVM3 rockets over a five-year period. The LVM3 has launched CARE, India's space capsule recovery experiment module, Chandrayaan-2 and Chandrayaan-3, India's second and third lunar missions, and will be used...
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