ISRO on Wednesday announced the launch of its latest spy satellite, RISAT-2BR1. It has also launched nine other foreign satellites through the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV).
The spy satellite is a radar imaging earth observation satellite developed in-house and will be used for military as well as agriculture and disaster management support.
Out of the other satellites, six are from the United States, and one each from Japan, Italy and Israel. These will be used for remote sensing and earth imaging.
The launch vehicle, PSLV-C48, took off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh, at 3.25 pm.
RISAT-2BR1 was placed in orbit around 16 minutes after liftoff, and the nine customer satellites were released into orbit around five minutes later.
“I am extremely happy to declare that the 50th PSLV vehicle successfully injected RISAT-2BR1 precisely into the 576 km orbit,” said Isro chief K Sivan.
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