The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) launched its first space mission which is slated to put satellites in three different orbits on April 1 from the Satish Dhawan Space Center in Sriharikota.
#WATCH Sriharikota: ISRO’s #PSLVC45 lifts off from Satish Dhawan Space Centre, carrying EMISAT & 28 customer satellites on board. #AndhraPradesh pic.twitter.com/iQIcl7hBIH
— ANI (@ANI) April 1, 2019
EMISAT has been successfully injected into sun-synchronous polar orbit. 28 customer satellites, carried by PSLV-C45 EMISAT will be placed into their designated orbit.
The 28 international customer satellites from Lithuania, Spain, Switzerland and the US and are being launched under commercial arrangements, ISRO said.
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This will be the 47th mission of the Indian Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle program.
The PSLV-C45 will launch the electronic intelligence satellite EMISAT first into a 749 km orbit after which, it will be brought down to the 504 km orbit for launching 28 satellites.
This comes just days after India achieved a major milestone in its defence capabilities in space by shooting down a low earth orbit satellite using an anti-satellite (ASAT) missile.
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