Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) Rocket

Isro has been providing satellite launch services since 1990 through the PSLV, launching 319 customer satellites from 33 countries

The SSLV is third launch vehicle of the research organisation after Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) and Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV).

The countdown for India's one of the longest rocketing by Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle rocket carrying 19 satellites began on Saturday, said a top official of Indian Space Research Organisation

The launch close on the heels of the February 28 PSLV- C51 mission

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In the last 25 years, the space agency has launched more than 50 PSLV rockets, and wants to launch another 50 in the next five years

Piggy backing on the 615 kg RISAT-2BR1 in the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) would be four foreign satellites that India will be carrying for a fee

Satellite 'RISAT-2B' will beef up India's surveillance capabilities in the sky and help track and tackle hostile activity, such as infiltration or gathering of militants

Cartosat-3 aims to address the increased demands for large scale urban planning, rural resource and infrastructure development, coastal land use and land cover

Cartosat-3, India's third-generation earth observation satellite, will be used for large-scale urban planning and to monitor coastal land, rural resources and infrastructure development

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Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C43) carrying India's earth observation satellite Hyper Spectral Imaging Satellite (HysIS) and 30 small satellites from eight countries took off successfully

Isro attempt to place the country's eighth navigation satellite in orbit failed on Thursday

After a successful countdown, which started at 01:08 pm (IST) on Saturday, PSLV-C42 soared into the sky from the first launch pad at Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota near Chennai

Isro said that the rocket performed well during the mission

On Feb 15, a PSLV released a flock of over 100 nano- and micro-satellites of customers for a fee

This is the first mission of PSLV in which it will be launching its payloads into two different orbits

The mission is also an attempt to demonstrate capabilities of ISRO for future commercial purposes