ISRO set to launch 5 satellites this month

The satellites will be launched from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota at 9.49 am, ISRO said in an official statement.

By: Express News Service
Bangalore | June 21, 2014 12:44 AM IST

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will carry out its first major commercial satellite launch in over a year, sending five small foreign satellites into space on its Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C23) on June 30.
The satellites will be launched from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota at 9.49 am, ISRO said in an official statement.

The PSLV-C23 will carry French Earth Observation Satellite SPOT-7, weighing 714 kg, as its main payload while a 14 kg satellite from Germany called AISAT, two 15 kg satellites from Canada CAN-X4 and CAN-X5 and a 7 kg satellite from Singapore, VELOX-1, will travel piggyback.