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The ISRO chief further said that India would soon launch a mission to bring lunar soil - fine fractions of lunar regolith - to Earth.
Later, scientists at ISRO would undertake a series of manoeuvres to place the satellite into the Geo-stationary orbit in the coming days.
ISRO's maiden X-Ray Polarimeter Satellite would offer insights into celestial objects like black holes.
The X-ray Polarimeter Satellite (XPoSat) is aimed to investigate the polarisation of intense X-ray sources in space.
DS-SAR carries a Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) payload developed by Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI). This allows the DS-SAR to provide for all-weather day and night coverage, and capable of imaging at one metre resolution at full polarimetry.
The lift off of the 43.5 metre tall rocket was at 9 am from the second launch pad at Satish Dhawan Space Centre here, about 135 km from Chennai.
Satellite MT1 was launched on October 12, 2011, as a joint satellite venture of ISRO and the French space agency, CNES for tropical weather and climate studies.
While governments try to tackle international rules, the immediate response to the littering of orbit is coming in large part from the private sector.
According to ISRO, the Chandrayaan-3 lander successfully underwent EMI/EMC test during January 31-February 2 at the UR Rao Satellite Centre, Bengaluru.
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