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Saturday, November 30, 2019

ISRO's PSLV-C47 succesfully places Cartosat-3 and 13 US nano satellites into orbit on 27th November, 2019

India’s PSLV-C47 launch vehicle successfully launched India's Cartosat-3 and 13 commercial nanosatellites of USA from Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) SHAR, Sriharikota on 27th November, 2019.

PSLV-C47 lifted-off exactly at  09:28 Hrs (IST) on November 27, 2019 from the Second Launch Pad of SDSC SHAR, Sriharikota.   PSLV-C47 was the 75th launch vehicle mission from SDSC SHAR, Sriharikota. This is the 21st flight of PSLV in 'XL' configuration (with 6 solid strap-on motors).
About 17 minutes and 38 seconds after lift-off, Cartosat-3 was injected into an orbit of 509 km at an inclination of 97.5 degree to the equator.
with the successful launch of CARTOSAT-3 on-board PSLV-C47 Rocket,  ISRO has added one more to its constellation of remote sensing satellites which can map the earth with better accuracy.   With this launch, ISRO so sar launch launched 8 nos of Cartosat Satellites since 2005,  With this ISRO has launched 310 foreign satellites till now.
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Here is the video of the launch.....