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India's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle "reaffirms its workhorse tag".

BBC Monitoring International Reports

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Excerpt from report by Press Trust of India news agency

Chennai, 20 April: Reaffirming its workhorse tag, India's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) today completed its 17th successful mission in a row when it launched the country's remote sensing satellite Resourcesat-2 from the spaceport of Sriharikota in southern state Andhra Pradesh.

Wednesday's successful launch by PSLV-C16, which also carried two nano satellites, has again demonstrated India's commercial launch capabilities in the multi-billion dollar global market in the sector. [Passage omitted]

PSLV has become "a more versatile vehicle for launching multiple satellites in polar SSOs, Low Earth …

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