PSLV C9 launch : ISRO

PSLV launch by ISRO is all set. PSLV C9 is launched by ISRO on Monday 09:23. It was the first time ISRO has has put 10 satellites in the orbit in single mission. It is for the first time in the world that ten satellites were launched in a single mission. Russia had earlier launched eight satellites together.

All the 10 satellites were fired 635 km into the respective polar sun synchronous orbit-SSO within 16 minutes after blast off, officials said.

India’s PSLV C9 Satellite Launch Vehicle has carried two Indian satellites from Sriharikota space station in Andhra Pradesh.

1. CARTOSAT-2A is remote sensing satellite of weight about 690 kg fitted with ultra latest panchromatic camera PAN.

2. The Indian Mini Satellite (IMS-1) of weight 83 kg implanted with multi technologies.

3. Along with two above PSLV-C9 will inject eight Nano satellites of weigh between 3kg to 16 kg are developed by Canada and Germany educational and research organizations. These Nano satellites will be used to make use of Nano technologies in Space research and development in coming years.

Scientists cheered as the PSLV-C9, in its thirteenth flight, soared into the clear blue skies in a perfect lift off at 9.23 am from the second launch pad of ISRO's Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota.

The ten pack launch of the Indian Space Research Organization-ISRO saw the 230-tonne PSLV-C9 carry the heaviest luggage- 824 kgs -and put into orbit an Indian Mini Satellite and eight foreign nano satellites besides the Cartosat-2A remote sensing satellite.

The countdown for the launch began at 7.23 a.m. on Saturday, from the SDSC in Andhra Pradesh, about 100 km from Chennai. The Rs 700 million PSLV-C9 is second to a Russian rocket that delivered 16 in the outer space in April last year though the Russian launch vehicle carried a lesser payload of only around 300 kg.