Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) successfully launched its latest observation satellite EMISAT at 09:27 this morning.
ISRO has said that the main satellite EMISAT and the 28 customer satellites will be ed into two different orbits, and later, the fourth stage engine of the rocket will be taken to a third orbit in space.
The foreign satellites include 24 from the United States, two from Lithuania and one each from Switzerland and Spain.