I thought that it might be an idea to cover the miscellaneous launches and/or payloads that either do not occur to often or are generally not covered much. DocM has threads for our usual cast of characters, and this one can be a "cookie jar" for interesting launch occurrences.....Cheers... Indian space program buoyed by back-to-back GSLV successes The GSLV lifted off at 1122 GMT (7:22 a.m. EDT) Thursday from the Satish Dhawan Space Center on India’s east coast about 50 miles north of Chennai.