Sriharikota, Dec. 24 -- School students arrived at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre to witness the launch of ISRO's LVM3 M6 mission, which will carry the BlueBird Block-2 satellite into orbit as part of a commercial deal with US-based AST SpaceMobile.

Calling it a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, the students expressed gratitude to ISRO, their schools, and teachers, and shared their hopes of seeing many more Indian space missions and milestones in the future.

L. Shreshtha, a student from Telangana, said, "We are grateful and really lucky to be here. It is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to be here, and we are really thankful to ISRO and everyone who has given us the opportunity to be here. We would like to see more launches and we would d...