Live coverage of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) Mars Orbiter Mission
launch will commence today at 14:00 Indian Standard Time (IST) which corresponds to
08:30 UTC and 19:30 AEDT (NSW, Vic, Tas).
It will stream from the ISRO website here -
http://www.isro.org/
The launch itself is scheduled for 20:08 AEDT (14:38 IST).
The launch is from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Andhra Pradesh, located
on the coast of the Bay of Bengal on a piece of geography strikingly similar to
Merritt Island in Florida. (See Google Maps screenshots below)
Second stage propellant fueling operations have been completed.
The Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) has four stages, stacked using alternate
solid and liquid propulsion. There have been 24 PSLV launches, 22 of which have
been successful.