Indian Space Research Organization, Sriharikota is back in action after an year with PSLV-C49 successful take off from the first launch pad at Satish Dhawan Space Centre on Saturday afternoon. The rocket is carrying an all-weather earth imaging satellite EOS-01,previously called as RISAT-2BR2, and nine foreign satellites in its 51th flight.
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The scheduled time is 03:02 PM and the rocket lifted off at 3.12 PM. The delay is due to the lightning that may pose damage to the electronics onboard the rocket. After 15 minutes from the lifting, the launch vehicle was successfully injected in its primary payload, EOS-01, into a low earth orbit and is followed by nine customer satellites. ISRO said EOS-01 is an earth observation satellite intended for applications in agriculture, forestry and disaster management support, EOS-01 is carrying an X-band synthetic-aperture radar.
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Nine foreign satellites includes R2 satellite from Lithuania, a technology demonstrator, four Kleos (KSM-1A/1B/1C/1D) satellites from Luxembourg for maritime applications and 4 Lemur (Lemur-1/2/3/4) satellites from the US meant for multi-mission remote sensing application. Today's launch is the first launch by ISRO post-covid crisis. Today's launch holds record as the 76th launch vehicle mission from the Sriharikota, 38th from first launchpad and second flight of PSLV with 'DL' variant carrying two strap-on boosters. DRDO successfully flight tested PINAKA rocket system