India's most powerful operational launch vehicle, despite its name an essentially new design rather than an upgrade of the earlier GSLV, since renamed LVM3. It launched the Chandrayaan-2 and Chandrayaan-3 lunar missions, the latter making India the fourth nation to achieve a soft Moon landing and the first to land near the lunar south pole.
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Vehicle ClassHeavy-lift expendable launch vehicle 1 ManufacturerIndian Space Research Organisation 1 First Flight DateDate of its first orbital flight; an earlier December 2014 flight was a suborbital test of the crew module and did not use the vehicle's cryogenic upper stage. StatusOperational, India's primary vehicle for its heaviest and most prestigious missions, including planned crewed Gaganyaan flights. 1 Status
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LVM3 (Wikipedia)
In Group: Indian Launch Vehicles, Lead sentence
The Launch Vehicle Mark-3 or LVM3 (previously referred as the GSLV Mk III) is a three-stage medium-lift launch vehicle developed by ISRO.
Has Vehicle Class: Medium-Lift Launch Vehicle, Infobox: function
Medium-lift launch vehicle
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