Liftoff of the PSLV rocket is scheduled for 9 p.m. EDT today (July 29).
The main payload flying on the 145-foot-tall PSLV tonight is DS-SAR, a 794-pound satellite designed to image Earth in radar light.
DS-SAR was developed jointly by Singapore's Defence Science and Technology Agency and the company ST Engineering, according to ISRO. Six other, smaller satellites will also fly on the rocket as secondary payloads. All of them were developed by Singaporean universities and other organizations in the small but economically powerful island nation. You can learn more about them inAll seven satellites are scheduled to be deployed into low Earth orbit, 332 miles above the planet, over a four-minute stretch beginning about 21 minutes after launch, according to ISRO.
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