new delhi isros pslvc55 rocket on saturday successfully placed two singapore satellites teleos2 and lumelite4 from the satish dhawan space center in sriharikota into a lowearth orbitthe pslv c55 rocket carrying the two singapore satellites lifted off from a spaceport in sriharikota around 220pm on saturday the workhorse launch vehicle carried with it teleos2 as primary satellite and lumelite4 as a copassenger satellite that was deployed into the intended orbitthe 444metre rocket lifted off from the first launch pad at the end of a 225 hour countdown at the satish dhawan space centre here located about 135 km from chennaithe mission is not only important for foreign customers but also significant for desi space startups as the nsils dedicated commercial rocket carried the two singapore satellites as main payloads and seven nonseparating payloads belonging to isro indian institute of astrophysics and startups bellatrix and dhruva space saturdays mission was the 57th flight of pslv and 16th mission using the pslv corealone configurationteleos2 is a synthetic aperture radar satellite developed under partnership between defence science and technology agency dsta representing the government of singapore and st engineeringnow that the deployment of the satellite into the about 586 km orbit is successful it would be used to support the satellite imagery requirements of various agencies within the government of singapore teleos2 carries a synthetic aperture radar sar payload it would be used to provide allweather day and night coverage and is capable of imaging at 1 metre full polarimetric resolution for singaporelumelite4 satellite is codeveloped by the institute for infocomm research and satellite technology and research centre of the national university of singaporeit is an advanced 12u satellite developed for the technological demonstration of the highperformance spaceborne vhf data exchange system vdes the objective of the satellite is to augment singapores enavigation maritime safety and benefit the global shipping community isro saidwith inputs from agencieswatch isro successfully launches pslvc55 mission carrying two singaporean satellites