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Isro does India proud again
In yet another multiple satellite launch, Isro on Friday successfully put into orbit the earth observation satellite Cartosat, nano satellite NIUSAT and 29 foreign satellites from 14 countries.
Cartosat, 30 other satellites put in orbit
Sriharikota: In yet another multiple satellite launch, Isro on Friday successfully put into orbit the earth observation satellite Cartosat, nano satellite NIUSAT and 29 foreign satellites from 14 countries.
In the process, the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) crossed the double century mark in launching foreign satellites. India started launching foreign satellites in 1999.
The rocket Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle's (PSLV) main cargo was India's 712 kg Cartosat-2 series satellite for earth observation with a design life of five years. This satellite is similar to the earlier Cartosat-2 series.
The other 30 satellites weighing 243 kg were from 14 countries - Austria, Belgium, Britain, Chile, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovakia, and the US - as well as one Indian nano satellite, NIUSAT. The whole mission got over in around 23 minutes. "The mission is successful.
All the satellites are in the orbit," Isro chairman A S Kiran Kumar said after the launch. According to Kumar, the Friday mission had many activities that needs fuel and additional margins and hence one should not look at just the total payload carried by a rocket.
He said the next PSLV launch will be for putting into orbit a navigation satellite as a replacement for IRNSS-1A satellite whose three atomic clocks have failed.
