India on Wednesday successfully launched a remote-sensing satellite for studying oceans and climate and six small Europeans satellites on board a rocket shot from the Sriharikota spaceport in Andhra Pradesh, southern India, reported the Indo-Asian News Service.
The 960-kg Oceansat-2 and six nano European satellites weighing20 kg altogether were attached to the 44.4-meter tall, 230-ton Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV), which soared into space at 11:51 a.m. local time (0621 GMT), said the report.
The rocket first spat out Oceansat-2 at an altitude of 720 km above the earth in a sun-synchronous orbit (SSO), before parting with the six small satellites, which are owned by universities of Germany, Switzerland and Turkey, and launched under a commercial agreement.
Soon after the satellites were put into orbit, Indian Space Research Organization (ISOR) satellite tracking centers started monitoring them, said the report.
ISOR Chairman G. Madhavan Nair congratulated his scientists and said the satellites have been put in their precise orbit.
Source: Xinhua
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