ISRO to launch 6.5-tonne US commercial satellite BlueBird-6 on December 15: All you need to know

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will launch the American satellite BlueBird-6, which weighs 6.5 tonnes, from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota on 15 December. This will mark a historic commercial mission for ISRO.

BlueBird-6, developed by AST SpaceMobile Inc., a Texas-based company building a space-based cellular broadband network, is scheduled to be placed into low Earth orbit (LEO) aboard ISRO’s LVM3 heavy-lift launch vehicle.

The satellite will travel into orbit on the Launch Vehicle Mark-3 (LVM3) rocket, also known as…