PSLV C-15

On July 12, 2010
PSLV-C15, the seventeenth flight of ISRO's versatile Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, PSLV,
put CARTOSAT-2B in polar Sun Synchronous Orbit (SSO).
(PSLV was initially designed for launching Indian Remote Sensing Satellites into a 900 km polar SSO)
first launch in 1993.
For PSLV-C15 mission, the 'core alone' version of PSLV was used.
The 44 metre tall 'core alone' version of PSLV weighs 230 tons at lift-off. Six solid 'strap-on motors', clustered around the first stage of PSLV 'standard version' to enhance its thrust, are absent in 'core alone' version. PSLV-C15 is the sixth flight of the 'core alone' version of PSLV.
Also Algeria's 116-kg ALSAT-2A, Canada's 6.5 kg NLS-6.1 and AISSAT-1, Switzerland's NLS-6.2 TISAT, and picosatellite STUDSAT designed by 35 undergraduate engineering students from seven colleges in Bangalore and Hyderabad.