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India’s PSLV blasts off with 20 satellites
A Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle lifted off early Wednesday with an assortment of payloads for the Indian government, domestic universities, and institutions and companies from Indonesia, Canada, Germany and the United States, including a pathfinder satellite for Google's Terra Bella Earth observation division.
Indian launch rounds out domestic navigation network
India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle blasted off Thursday with the seventh and final spacecraft for a regional navigation network to provide position data to users across the subcontinent independent of foreign satellite systems.
Photos: Regional navigation aid blasts off from India
The sixth satellite in a series of seven orbiting navigation aids lifted off from India on Thursday, streaking into orbit aboard a 145-foot-tall Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle.
PSLV deploys next satellite for Indian navigation network
An Indian navigation satellite lifted off Thursday aboard a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, heading for a perch more than 22,000 miles over Africa to grow the country's independent space-based positioning fleet.
PSLV lofts satellite for India’s indigenous navigation system
The fifth satellite for India's regional navigation network rode into orbit Wednesday aboard a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, joining a growing fleet of spacecraft to provide positioning services to users across South Asia.
Fifth Indian navigation satellite set for liftoff
India's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle is scheduled to deploy the fifth satellite in the country's regional navigation network Wednesday.
PSLV completes commercial launch with six Singaporean satellites
Six spacecraft for Singapore lifted off Wednesday aboard an Indian Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle.
India’s first astronomy satellite launched into space
An Indian astronomical observatory rocketed into orbit Monday to study black holes and neutron stars -- the compact, powerful remnants of exploded stars -- in a five-year mission lauded as a milestone in India's space program.
Live coverage: India’s first space observatory in orbit
India's first dedicated astronomical observatory lifted off at 0430 GMT (12:30 a.m. EDT) Monday aboard a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, riding into a 400-mile-high orbit to begin a five-year mission studying the births and deaths of stars.
Orbital sail, Earth-watching satellites launched by PSLV
Five satellites made in Britain to track the expansion of Chinese cities and demonstrate a new sail design to clean up space junk blasted off Friday on top of an Indian Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle.