Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), India's space agency on Monday, Jul 12,2010, successfully launched the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) rocket, into orbit remote sensing satellite Cartosat-2B and four other satellites.
The main cargo, Cartosat-2B weighs 694 kg. Another satellite the Alsat-2A, the Algerian remote sensing satellite weighs 116 kg. It also include two nano Satellites- NLS 6.1, AISSAT-1 weighing 6.5 kg (built by the University of Toronto, Canada) and one kg NLS 6.2 TISAT built by University of Applied sciences, Switzerland. The fifth other is STUDSAT, a pico satellite weighing less than one kg, built jointly by students of seven engineering colleges in Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka.
At the end of an over 51-hour countdown, the 44.4 metre-tall four-stage PSLV-C-15, costing Rs 260 crore, blasted off from a launch pad at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre with ignition of the core first stage and placed the satellites in orbit one after the other.
The rocket first released Cartosat-2B twenty minutes after the blast off. It was followed by Alsat-2A and the three small satellites.
ISRO Chairman K Radhakrishnan said that he is extremely happy to say that PSLV C-15 was a successful fligt. He added that all the satellites were injected precisely.
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