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A 145-foot-tall (44-meter) Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle lifts off from the Satish Dhawan Space Center on Monday. Credit: ISRO An Indian Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle blasted off and successfully deployed a military electronic surveillance satellite and 28 nanosatellites for companies in the United States, Lithuania, Spain and Switzerland at two different altitudes Monday, before the…

Live coverage of the countdown and launch India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle with the EMISat electronic intelligence-gathering satellite and 28 nanosatellites. Text updates will appear automatically below. Follow us on Twitter. ISRO’s live video stream begins at approximately 0330 GMT (11:30 p.m. EDT) and will be available on this page.

India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, fitted with four solid rocket boosters, stands on the Second Launch Pad at the Satish Dhawan Space Center on India’s east coast on the Bay of Bengal. Credit: ISRO An Indian Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle is scheduled for liftoff Sunday night with an intelligence-gathering electronic surveillance satellite and 28 secondary…