{"id":352384,"date":"2025-12-20T14:17:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T08:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=352384"},"modified":"2025-12-20T14:17:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T08:47:13","slug":"lvm3-m6-bluebird-block-2-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/lvm3-m6-bluebird-block-2-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"LVM3-M6 \/ BlueBird Block-2 Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>News: <\/strong>In a significant commercial milestone, ISRO\u2019s LVM3-M6 rocket is set to launch a communication satellite for the US-based firm AST SpaceMobile.<\/p>\n<h2>About LVM3-M6 \/ BlueBird Block-2 Mission<\/h2>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.isro.gov.in\/media_isro\/image\/index\/Latest\/LVM3-M6_BlueBird_Block2_1.jpg.webp?resize=219%2C369&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"LVM3-M6 \/ BlueBird Block-2 Mission\" width=\"219\" height=\"369\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>LVM3-M6 \/ BlueBird Block-2 is a <strong>dedicated commercial mission<\/strong> of ISRO\u2019s LVM3 launch vehicle.<\/li>\n<li>The mission will launch the <strong>BlueBird Block-2 communication satellite of AST SpaceMobile, USA.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is the <strong>6th operational flight of the LVM3 rocket.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Launched by:<\/strong> ISRO<\/li>\n<li>In this mission, <strong>LVM3-M6 will place the BlueBird Block-2 satellite into Low Earth Orbit (LEO).<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>LVM3 is a<strong> three-stage launch vehicle. <\/strong>It consists of <strong>two solid strap-on motors (S200), a liquid core stage (L110), and a cryogenic upper stage (C25)<\/strong>. The rocket has a lift-off mass of 640 tonnes, a height of 43.5 m, and can carry 4,200 kg to GTO.<\/li>\n<li>It <strong>will be the largest commercial communications satellite<\/strong> deployed in LEO.<\/li>\n<li>It will <strong>also be the heaviest payload launched by LVM3<\/strong> from Indian soil.<\/li>\n<li>The BlueBird Block-2 satellite is <strong>designed to provide direct space-based cellular broadband connectivity to standard mobile smartphones.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Earlier missions of LVM3 include <strong>Chandrayaan-2, Chandrayaan-3, and two OneWeb missions<\/strong> carrying 72 satellites.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: In a significant commercial milestone, ISRO\u2019s LVM3-M6 rocket is set to launch a communication satellite for the US-based firm AST SpaceMobile. About LVM3-M6 \/ BlueBird Block-2 Mission LVM3-M6 \/ BlueBird Block-2 is a dedicated commercial mission of ISRO\u2019s LVM3 launch vehicle. The mission will launch the BlueBird Block-2 communication satellite of AST SpaceMobile, USA.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/lvm3-m6-bluebird-block-2-mission\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">LVM3-M6 \/ BlueBird Block-2 Mission<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10366,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1738,12039],"tags":[11872,405],"class_list":["post-352384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","category-knolls","tag-9pm-daily-factly","tag-isro","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10366"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}