PSLV-C35 successfully launched

Indian Space Research Organization on Monday successfully launched Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C35) carrying eight satellites took off from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota. This is ISRO's longest ever launch mission with duration of 2 hour and 15 minutes.

This is 37th flight for the PSLV and the 15th time. This broke the news headlines as PSLV for the first time launched eight satellites into two different orbits

PSLV-C35 will help in India's weather monitoring satellite and SCATSAT-1 is placed in the polar sun synchronous orbit.According to news update, the mission of SCATSAT-1 is to help provide weather forecasting services to the user communities through the generation of wind vector products for weather forecasting, cyclone detection and tracking, ISRO said.