Monitoring Desk
ISLAMABAD: A new Indian rocket successfully placed three satellites into the intended orbit bouncing back from its failed debut flight in August last year, the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) said on Friday.
The EOS-07 Earth-observation satellite and two ride-along CubeSats blasted off into the sky aboard the Small Satellite Launch Vehicle (SSLV) from India’s Satish Dhawan Space Centre Thursday at 10:48 p.m. EST.
The 112-foot-tall (34 meters) rocket deployed all three spacecraft into their designated 280-mile-high (450 kilometers) circular orbits 15.5 minutes after its launch.
Shortly after the launch, the ISRO confirmed via a tweet that the mission had been accomplished successfully.
The launch was ISRO’s second development flight of SSLV
The latest launch was ISRO’s second developmental flight of the SSLV, as the debut flight in August 2022 failed to deploy two satellites into the targeted orbits.
The agency had said then that a committee would probe the matter and make recommendations for further action. The 344-pound (156 kg) EOS-07 is an experimental satellite whose mission objectives are linked to developing and demonstrating new instruments on a short schedule, according to an ISRO mission description.
