ISRO launches six Singaporean satellites

India's PSLV-C29 rocket carrying six Singapore satellites lifted off from the spaceport of Sriharikota in the evening on Wednesday.

This mission will be the last rocket launch mission for Isro in 2015.  So far in the year, ISRO has launched 14 satellites (three Indian and 11 foreign) from its rocket port in Sriharikota.  This was the 32nd flight for the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle.  It released the six satellites one by one into a 550 km circular orbit.  Of the six satellites, TeLEOS-1 is the primary satellite weighing 400 kgs whereas the other five satellites include two micro-satellites and three nano-satellites.  TeLEOS-1 is the first Singapore commercial earth observation satellite.  It would be launched into a low Earth orbit for "remote sensing" applications.  Antrix Corporation Ltd, the commercial arm of ISRO, has provided launch services in PSLV for 51 customer satellites from 20 countries so far.  Source: http://www.ddinews.gov.in