ISRO launches earth monitoring satellite

Sriharikota (AP), Nov 29 Adding another quill to its top, ISRO's workhorse rocket PSLV-C43 Thursday successfully injected into orbit India's earth observation satellite HysIS.

The 30 other co-traveller international satellites including those from the United States of America and Australia among others, will soon be placed into orbit.

The rocket lifted off majestically into shady skies in a burst of orange blazes at 9.57 am from the primary platform at this spaceport toward the finish of the 28-hour commencement.

The HySIS was set in orbit 17 minutes and 27 seconds after lift-off.

ISRO chief K Sivan and the space office's researchers poor into cheers as the earth perception satellite was infused into sun-synchronous polar circle.

The primary mission of the Hyper Spectral Imaging Satellite (HysIS), whose mission life is five years, is to think about the world's surface in visible near infrared and shortwave infrared regions of the electromagnetic spectrum.

It is the primary satellite of the PSLV-C43 mission, which is on its 45th flight.

The mass of the spacecraft is around 380 kg, and the satellite would be set in 636 km-polar sun synchronous orbit with a inclination of 97.957 degree, ISRO said.

The co-traveller satellites have been contracted for dispatch through ISRO's business arm Antrix Corporation Limited.

PSLV-C43, is the 'Centre Alone' version of PSLV. It is the lightest version of the launch vehicle.

This is ISRO's second launch in the month.

The space agency had launched its latest communication satellite GSAT-29 on board GSLV MkIII-D2 on November 14.