ISRO’s PSLV-C45 mission: Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) workhorse PSLV-C45 rocket successfully injected military satellite EMISAT into sun-synchronous polar orbit on Monday. The process to place 28 other customer satellites into their designated orbit has begun. Customers from the Lithuania, Spain, Switzerland and the USA had signed agreements with the ISRO to launch their satellites. The entire mission is expected to last about 180 minutes. For the first time in the history of space exploration, ISRO launched 29 satellites in three different orbits. The EMISAT satellite was put into 479 km orbit.