NEW DELHI: India fired a rocket carrying 31 small satellites into space, several of them for European countries looking for high resolution earth images, underlining its strength as a low-cost provider of services in space.
The Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) launched a 712kg Cartosat-2 satellite for earth observation and 30 other tiny satellites from Sriharikota in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh at 9.29am.
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