Indian PSLV Places Three Satellites In Orbit

By Jay Menon jaymenon68@gmail.com .
NEW DELHI .

India’s space agency successfully orbited the Resourcesat-2 advanced Earth-observation satellite and a couple of nano-satellites on April 20, following two consecutive launch failures last year.

In its first mission of 2011, the Indian Space Research Organization’s indigenous, 900 million rupee ($20 million) Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, PSLV-C16, made a picture-perfect liftoff at 10:12 a.m. local time from the Satish ...

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