Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle c15 launched successfully---PSLV C15 launched successfully from Sriharikota, Studsat in orbit

PSLV c15 successfully placed into orbit Cartosat-2B and four other satellites after a perfect lift off from Sriharikota. The 44.4 metre-tall 4-stage PSLV C-15, lanched from a launch pad at the Satish Dhawan Space Center.
PSLV soared into clear skies at 9.22 am from the spaceport in the East Coast in Andhra Pradesh, about 100 km north of Chennai. The PSLV launch assumes significance as it comes about three months after Isro suffered a major setback on April 15 when the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle GSLV-D3, which was launched using an Indian-designed and built cryogenic engine for the first time, failed and fell into the Bay of Bengal. Cartosat-2B is an advanced remote sensing satellite built by Isro. This is the latest in the Indian remote sensing satellite series and the 17th in this series. Cartosat-2B is mainly intended to augment remote sensing data services to the users of multiple spot scene imagery with 0.8 metre spatial resolution and 9.6 km swath in the panchromatic.A set of four satellites including Studsat built by students of seven engineering colleges in Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka, Alsat from Algeria, two nano satellites from Canada and Switzerland, and a pico (very small) satellite called Oceansat 2 accompanied Cartosat 2 on its trip to orbit.(PTI)(The Hindu)