ISRO successfully injected all the satellites in orbit

Indian Space Research Organisation’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, or PSLV, put the Earth observation satellite “Oceansat” into a sun-synchronous orbit today. (@isro)

At the end of a 25.30-hour countdown, the 44.4-meter-tall rocket took off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at this spaceport at a set time of 11:56 a.m.

ISRO chairman S. Somanath said that the Earth Observation Satellite, or Oceansat, was successfully put into orbit 17 minutes after PSLV-C54 took off. This happened after the rocket reached the right orbit.

Scientists would lower the rocket to move the other satellites into a different orbit. This should take about two hours.

The Oceansat series’ third-generation satellite is the Earth Observation Satellite-6. This is to keep the services of the Oceansat-2 spacecraft going with improved payload specifications and new areas of use.