India will launch a huge and powerful communications satellite for its navy early Sunday morning (Nov. 2), and you can watch the action live.

The CMS-03 spacecraft, also known as GSAT-7R, is scheduled to lift off atop a Launch Vehicle Mark-3 (LVM3) rocket from Satish Dhawan Space Centre Sunday at 6:56 a.m. EDT (1056 GMT; 5:26 p.m. local time in India).

You can watch it live here at Space.com, courtesy of the Indian Space Research Organisation, or directly via ISRO. Coverage will begin 30 minutes before liftoff.

If all goes to plan on Sunday, the LVM3 will deploy the 9,700-pound (4,400-kilogram) CMS-03 into geostationary transfer orbit about 16 minutes after liftoff. It will be the heaviest communications satellite ever launched to GTO from Indian soil, according to ISRO.

The spacecraft

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