India's PSLV-C20 carried the Indo-French SARAL ocean altimetry satellite into sun-synchronous orbit, along with six secondary payloads from Canada, Austria, Denmark, and the UK. SARAL used the Argos and AltiKa instruments to study ocean circulation and sea-surface elevation.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- SSO
- Sun-synchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 854 kg
- Flight
- 9th
- of 18 PSLV-CA flights
- Date and time
- 25 February 2013, 12:31 UTC
- Rocket
- PSLV-CA
- Builder
- ISRO
- Launch site
- Satish Dhawan Space Centre First Launch Pad, Satish Dhawan Space Centre, India
- Payload
- Planetary Science
- International designator
- 2013-009
- Launches in 2013
- 10th of 81
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