Hyderabad, Nov. 24 -- ISRO Chairman V Narayanan on Monday during the 68th Annual Day celebrations of IRISET, said that the space agency is preparing to launch a US communication satellite next month using the Launch Vehicle Mark-3.

Speaking to reporters, the ISRO Chairman said, "The launch date is not yet decided. It will be next month. We are planning to launch a commercial-based communication satellite using our LVM (Launch Vehicle Mark) -3 vehicle... It is a US satellite that we are going to launch on a commercial basis."

The ISRO chairman also stated that the agency is working on the Ganganyaan programme and that new projects have been approved, including Chandrayaan 4, which has the mission of returning samples from the moon and is...