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EOS-04, with a mission life of ten years, is a Radar Imaging Satellite designed to provide high quality images under all weather conditions
G Narayanan is the Chairman and Managing Director of the NSIL, a Central Public Sector Enterprise under the administrative control of Department of Space.
The rocket lifted off with Brazil's Amazonia-1 as primary satellite and 18 co-passenger payloads.
India's Polar rocket PSLV C-51 carrying Amazonia-1 of Brazil and 18 other satellites blasted off from this spaceport on Sunday, in the first mission of the year for ISRO.
ISRO's trusted polar satellite launch vehicle - PSLV-C50 - injected the satellite around 20 minutes after the lift-off from the second launch pad at the spaceport of Sriharikota.
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.
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.
ISRO has not officially accounted for this sidestepping of the number 13.