Sriharikota, December 11, 2019: The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) successfully launched a radar imaging earth observation satellite and nine customer satellites by PSLV-C48 from Satish Dhawan Space Centre here on Wednesday.
The radar imaging satellite -- RISAT-2BR1 -- weighing about 628 kg along with all nine customer satellites, has been placed in their designated orbits, ISRO said on Twitter. The countdown for the launch of PSLV-C48 mission had commenced at 16:40 hours (IST) on Tuesday.
Earlier, ISRO Chairman Dr K Sivan had said that PSLV C48 is a historic achievement as this is the 50th launch for PSLV and 75th launch from Sriharikota.
PSLV-C48 is also carrying nine customer satellites – one each from Israel, Italy, Japan and six from the US as "co-passengers".