India Launches Heaviest-Ever Satellite BlueBird Block-2 into Orbit

India’s space agency ISRO successfully launched its heaviest satellite, BlueBird Block-2, into low Earth orbit, marking a major milestone for commercial and strategic space ambitions.

India’s space agency, ISRO, successfully launched its heaviest satellite yet, BlueBird Block-2, from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, southern India, on Wednesday. The 6,100-kilogram satellite was placed into low Earth orbit (LEO) using an LVM-3 rocket.

The LVM3-M6 rocket, built by the US-based company AST SpaceMobile...