The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) launched an earth observation satellite on Friday, marking the third and final development flight of the Small Satellite Launch Vehicle-03 (SSLV-D3). The mission joins the previous SSLV-D2-EOS-07 launch in February 2023 and is ISRO’s third mission of 2024, following the PSLV-C58/XpoSat mission in January and the GSLV-F14/INSAT-3DS mission in February.