Countdown for 2nd flight of ISRO’s SSLV rocket with 3 satellites to begin at 2.48 am Friday

By Venkatachari Jagannathan

Chennai, Feb 9 (IANS): The countdown for the flight of India’s small rocket, Small Satellite Launch Vehicle (SSLV-D2) will start in the early hours of Friday, said a senior official of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).

“The six-and-a-half hours countdown for the launch of SSLV-D2 (D-Developmental flight number 2) will begin at 2.48 a.m. on Friday,” the official told IANS, preferring anonymity.