India successfully launched seven satellites including six from foreign countries on Wednesday, officials said, underlining the country’s ambitions in the space business. About a month after its first moon mission was aborted, the country’s space agency announced that the seven satellites had been put into orbit about 720 kilometres (447 miles) above the Earth.
India will use one of the satellites, Oceansat-2, for monitoring ocean patterns and identifying fishing zones, enhancing the capability of the first Oceansat, which was launched in 1999, the agency said. Of the six foreign satellites, there are four from Germany and one each from Switzerland and Turkey. They are university-funded payloads being used to test new technologies.
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