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Sriharikota (Andhra Pradesh): India on Thursday evening successfully placed into orbit three Singaporean satellites in a text book style. This is the second successful rocket and satellite launch mission from here in 2022. At 6.02 p.m., Indian rocket Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle-C53 (PSLV-C52) blasted off from the second launch pad at Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) here. The rocket carried three satellites- the 365 kg DS-EO as its primary passenger and the 155 kg NeuSAR and the 2.8 kg Scoob-1 of Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore as co-passengers. The PSLV-C53 also carried six payloads, including two from Indian space start-ups- Digantara and Dhruva Aerospace-on its fourth stage (PS4). The rocket's spent upper stage will be used as a stabilised platform for scientific payloads, subsequent to the separation of the satellites. With this successful mission, the PSLV rocket has launched 345 foreign satellites belonging to 36 countries since 1999. Congratulating Team ISRO for the successful mission, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Chairman S. Somanath said: "The PSLV C53 rocket has placed the customer satellites in precise orbit. The PS4 will write some 'POEMs' in the space." He said the control of PS4 or the fourth and final stage of the rocket will be taken over by its systems. Somanath said the PS4 with six payloads will carry out experiments in the space. The PSLV-C53 is a four-stage expendable, 44.4 m tall rocket with a lift-off mass of about 228 ton while the total weight of the three satellites is 522.8 kgd. The four stage/engine expendable rocket os powered by solid (first and third stages) and liquid (second and fourth stages) fuels alternatively. The rocket that flew on Thursday was the 55th ...