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India's 200-crore space mission delayed after leak in GSLV
starlightDate: Monday, 19-August-2013, 9:15 PM | Message # 1
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Less than two hours before lift-off, the launch of India's massive home-made rocket and communications satellite was called off this afternoon because of a reported fuel leak. After the lift-off from Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh, about 80 kilometres north of Chennai, the GSLV was expected to take a 17-minute flight to put the satellite into its designated orbit above Earth.


 
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