All four satellites put into orbit by the PSLV-C7 'are very healthy' and first picture from Cartosat will be received on Friday.
The PSLV-C7 blasted off from the spaceport at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre on Wednesday, carrying four satellites -- the 680 kg Indian Remote Sensing Satellite CARTOSAT-2, the 550-kg Space Capsule Recovery Equipment, Indonesia's LAPAN-TUBSAT and Argentina's 6-kg nanosatellite, PEHUENSAT-1.
"The satellites are very healthy and first picture from Cartosat will be received tomorrow," Vikaram Sarabhai Space Centre Director B N Suresh told media persons on Thursday at Thiruvananthapuram airport on arrival from Sriharikota.
Delhi will be the first place to be mapped by the satellite followed by Goa, he
said.
Referring to the 'uniqueness' of the launch, Suresh said a lot of new technology had been used and this would help ISRO in its re-useable launch vehicle project and manned-mission programme.
The SRE-1 is now in orbit and few experiments will be conducted and 'if everything goes all right, we are planning to recover it after 12 days.'
It would splashdown in the Bay of Bengal about 140-km east off Sriharikota coast. For the first time images of the separation of the satellites had been taken by onboard video imaging system successfully and the images will be released shortly.
To a question on the commercial advantage of the launch, Liquid Propulsion System Centre Director R V Perumal said, "We have a good prospect in launch service, building satellites and also selling services like remote sensing services."
