SRIHARIKOTA: The Indian Space Research Organisation's (ISRO) Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C15) on Monday put five satellites in their precise orbit, unequivocally demonstrating its reliability and robustness.
It was a flawless mission all the way, with the ignition and separation of the rocket's four stages taking place on time, the heat-shield protecting the satellites falling off on schedule and the satellites flying out of the fourth stage at a velocity of 27,000 km an hour. The on-board computers worked perfectly. This was the 16 {+t} {+h} consecutive successful fight of the PSLV.
ISRO chairman K. Radhakrishnan called it “an excellent launch.” The mission went off “extremely well, as expected.”
The five satellites launched were: ISRO's 694-kg Cartosat-2B; 116-kg Alsat-2A of Algeria; 6.5-kg nano satellite, named NLS 6.1 AISSAT-1 of the Space Flight Laboratory of the University of Toronto, Canada; one-kg nano satellite NLS 6.2 TISAT-1, built by the University of Applied Science Sciences of Switzerland; and tiny Studsat, built by 35 students of seven engineering colleges in Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh.
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