Sriharikota, July 13th.
Launched from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre, the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle PSLV-C15 injected five satellites into their orbits.
Led by the latest 694 kg Indian remote sensing satellite CARTOSAT-2B, the core alone version of the PSLV-C15 placed four other satellites in a perfect sequencing into a Polar Sun Synchronous Orbit at a height of about 637 km from the earth surface, after the vehicle’s fourth-stage burnout.
This was the 16th consecutive successful flight for the PSLV and its eighth successful multiple satellites launch.
The other satellites placed in the near-same orbit included a smaller remote sensing satellite 116 kg ALSAT-2A of Algeria, and two Nanosats. One of them weighing 6.5 kg was built by Space Flight Laboratory, University of Toronto, Canada and the other 1 kg nano-satellite, has been developed by the University of Applied Science, Switzerland.
Source: ISRO, Indian Space research Organization

