Chennai, Dec 22 (UNI) The Indian Space Research Organisation

(ISRO) today said all the orbit raising manoeuvers of the CMS-01

communication satellite have been successfully completed.

ISRO in an update said after the injection of CMS-01 into an

elliptical sub-Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit on December 17,

all the orbit raising manoeuvers have been completed successfully.

The satellite reflector has been deployed. All the intended launch

and early phase operations are completed successfully, it said.

The satellite will be available to users for communication services

after completion of the payload In-orbit testing in the first week of

January 2021.

CMS-01 was successfully launched by PSLV-C50 from the Second

Launch Pad of SDSC SHAR at 1541 hrs on December 17.

After injection into the orbit, the solar panels of CMS-01 were

automatically deployed and ISRO’s Master Control Facility at

Hassan assumed the control of the satellite.

PSLV-C50 is the 52nd flight of PSLV and 22nd flight of PSLV

in 'XL' configuration (with 6 strap-on motors). This was the

77th launch vehicle mission from SDSC SHAR, Sriharikota.

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