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This is ISROs first mission this year after the COVID-19 pandemic induced lockdown 'disturbed 10 missions being planned by the agency and the nine customer satellites are from the USA, Lithuania and Luxembourg.
India's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle in its 51st mission, will launch EOS-01 as primary satellite along with nine international customer satellites.
The image was taken on July 1 when MOM was about 7,200 km from Mars and 4,200km from Phobos.
Sivan stated this while answering questions from Malayala Manorama's child readers through its ‘Hi Kids' initiative. Though hundreds of children had sent their questions, Sivan answered the best questions selected by 'Hi Kids' editorial team.
The launch was earlier tentatively scheduled at 17:43 hours on Thursday, subject to weather conditions, from the second launch pad of Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh.
Union Minister Jitendra Singh also said it is wrong to term Chandrayaan-2 as a disappointment since it was India's maiden attempt to land on the lunar surface and no country could do so in its first attempt.
According to ISRO, the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) rocket, on its 50th mission, set to carry the 10 satellites. The countdown began at 4.40pm on Tuesday evening.
The rocket will blast off from the first launch pad at Sriharikota rocket port in Andhra Pradesh and place RISAT-2BR1 into an orbit of 576 km.
The space agency launched CARTOSAT-3 satellite, ninth in the series, from the second launch pad at spaceport of Sriharikota, about 120kms from here on November 27 at 09.28 am.
The launch is tentatively scheduled at 09:28 hrs IST on November 25, 2019 subject to weather conditions, ISRO said.