vIndianz.com (Sept. 24, 2009) — The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) has successfully launched seven satellites including six from foreign countries from a single rocket.
This is the 16th mission for India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV). The rocket placed satellite Oceansat-2 and six small ones into space from the Satish Dhawan spaceport in Sriharikota city, 90 kilometres north of the southern city of Chennai.
India will use Oceansat-2, for monitoring ocean patterns and identifying fishing zones as well as helping with coastal studies, weather forecasting and climate studies.
The six small satellites belong to other countries — four to Germany, one to Switzerland and one to Turkey.
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