The Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) on Sunday successfully launched into space the NovaSAR and S1-4 earth observation satellites of the UK from the spaceport here and successfully placed them in the designated orbit.
After the countdown, which started at 1.08 pm on Saturday, PSLV-C42 took off from Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota, at 10.08 pm on Sunday.
In this configuration, the rocket is without six solid strap-on motors. This version was first flown in April 2007, and is the lightest version of PSLV.
The rocket carried two foreign satellites, NovaSAR and S1-4, which were launched into a 583-km Sun