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Sivan says the land acquisition for a second space port has been initiated and that the project costing about Rs 250 crore will be launched as early as next year

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Indian rocket Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) has lifted over 50 ton till date, out of which around 17 per cent consists of foreign customer satellites

This mission is expected to complete in around 21 minutes after placing the last of the customer satellites into orbit

This capital procurement was given the go ahead by Defence Acquisition Council (DAC) at a meeting chaired by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday

The Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) on Wednesday launched advanced earth imaging and mapping satellite CARTOSAT-3 along with 13 other commercial nano-satellites for the US on Wednesday. Watch the video for more.

CARTOSAT-3 is a third generation agile advanced satellite having high resolution imaging capability

CARTOSAT-3, an advanced Indian earth observation satellite built and developed by ISRO, was launched from the second launch pad at the scheduled time of 9.28 am

The space agency had earlier announced that the launch is tentatively scheduled at 09:28 hrs IST on November 25, subject to weather conditions

The Cartosat-3 is a \"third generation agile advanced satellite\" having high resolution imaging capability, it said, adding that the satellite would be placed in an orbit of 509 km at an inclination of 97.5 degree

Chandrayaan 3 mission: The committee also looked into the recommendations of sub-committees on propulsion, sensors, overall engineering, navigation and guidance

Sivan also said that ISRO's other space missions, including sending a probe to the Sun and humans to space, are on track