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| Oceansat-2 successfully placed |
| Oceansat-2 successfully placed in space by PSLV
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| INDIA
, 23-September-2009
3:13:51 AM |
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The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Wednesday successfully launched seven satellites in 1,200 seconds with the help of its most trusted Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV- C-14) from the Sriharikota spaceport in Andhra Pradesh coast.
The launch was carried out as per schedule at 11.51 a.m. (IST) and ended at 12.06 p.m. (IST).
India placed its second Ocean observation satellite Oceansat 2, along with six other nano satellites including two German two Rubinsats Rubin 9.1 and Rubin 9.2, and four cubesats - the Beesat (assembled by Technical University, Berlin), UWE-2 (University of Wuerzburg, Germany), ITU-pSat (Istanbul Technical University, Turkey) and SwissCube-1 (Ecole Polytechnique Federal de Lausanne, Switzerland).
Vice President Mohd Hamid Ansari who was present at the Satish Dhavan Space Centre SHAR, congratulated the scientists and technocrats over this splendid achievement for the nation.
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