NEW DELHI – Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated Sunday spacescientists for the successful launch of PSLV-C42, saying it shows India’sprowess in competitive space business.
The Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) PSLV-C42, carrying twoforeign earth satellites, took off Sriharikota spaceport in Andhra Pradeshat 10.08 pm on Sunday.
“Congratulations to our space scientists! ISRO successfully launched PSLVC42, putting two UK satellites in orbit, demonstrating India’s prowess inthe competitive space business,” the prime minister tweeted.
The ISRO today launched the NovaSAR and S1-4 earth observation satellitesof U.K from the spaceport in Sriharikota and placed them in the designatedorbit.
NovaSAR is intended to be used for forest mapping, land use and ice covermonitoring, flood and disaster monitoring.
S1-4 will be used for surveying resources, environment monitoring, urbanmanagement and disaster monitoring.
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In a night launch, the workhorse PSLV-C42 launch vehicle blasted off fromthe first launchpad at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at 10.08 PM.
The PSLV injected the satellites into orbit 17 minutes and 45 seconds afterlift off and placed them in a sun synchronous orbit 583 km from the earth.
ISRO chairman K Sivan said the mission was a success and congratulated thescientists.
