India’s 50th Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle Sends Satellites from Five Nations into Orbit Written 12 December 2019
Spaceflight Now reports that on Wednesday, India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) sent “10 spacecraft from five nations into orbit” from “the Satish Dhawan Space Center, a spaceport located on Sriharikota Island on India’s southeastern coast with the Bay of Bengal.” The payload included “a new Indian radar surveillance platform and a batch of small commercial Earth observation satellites.” For the 50th flight of an Indian PSLV, “the 144-foot-tall (44.4-meter) launcher lifted off with some 1.7 million pounds of thrust at 4:55 a.m. EST (0955 GMT).” Vikram Sarabhai Space Center Director S. Somanath said, “This is one of the important milestones in the history of PSLV.”
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