Click to play videoNew Delhi: The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has launched its first fully commercial satellite.
The indigenously-built Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle-C 8 has put in orbit an Italian astronomical satellite named Agile.
The blastoff took place at 1530 hrs, IST from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh.
This is the 11th launch of the PSLV-C8, but the first time it is putting a commercial satellite in orbit. The 540 kg satellite will be placed in a circular orbit 550 km above the earth.
Apart from Italian satellite, AGILE, PSLV-C8 would also carry an Advanced Avionics Module (AAM), weighing 185 kg, to test advanced launch vehicle avionics systems like mission computers, navigation and telemetry systems.
A workhorse launch vehicle of ISRO, PSLV has launched nine successful consecutive flights till now since the first launch in 1994. It would also launch India's first mission to the moon, Chandrayaan-1 in 2008.
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