India's first imaging satellite from geosynchronous orbit, and the pad it flew from

Background

The GSLV-F17 mission was the 19th flight of India's Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle, flown with a 4 m diameter composite ogive payload fairing. It carried EOS-05, an Earth observation spacecraft that the Indian Space Research Organisation describes as India's first ever imaging satellite from Geosynchronous orbit. The vehicle lifted off from the Second Launch Pad at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre, SHAR, and placed EOS-05 into a Sub-Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit. The durable facts here are the name of the launch vehicle family, the launch site and the pad it flew from, the application of the satellite, which is Earth Observation, and the idea of a transfer orbit as a staging orbit rather than a final one.