The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) at Sriharikota launched the NovaSAR and S1-4 earth observation satellites of U.K and placed them in the designated orbit on Monday.
NovaSAR is intended to be used for forest mapping, land use and ice cover monitoring, flood and disaster monitoring. S1-4 will be used for surveying resources, environment monitoring, urban management and disaster monitoring. The workhorse PSLV-C42 launch vehicle blasted off from the first launchpad at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at 10.08 PM on Sunday night.
The PSLV injected the satellites into orbit 17 minutes and 45 seconds after lift off and placed them in a sun synchronous orbit 583 km from the earth. ISRO chairman K Sivan said that the mission was a success and congratulated the scientists. He expressed his ecstasy stating that he is exteremly happy to announce that PSLV-C42 carrying two customer satellites NovaSAR and S1-4 placed them precisely in orbit.
Within the next six months, 10 satellite missions and eight launch vehicle missions would be launced - one every two weeks, he said ISRO's moon mission would be launched on January 3, 2019 he added.
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