An Indian Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) has successfully launched ten satellites. The 44-metre long rocket lifted off from the second launch pad at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at 03:53:51 GMT (09:24 local time), and reached a polar, Sun-synchronous low Earth orbit a little over seven minutes later. Following burnout of the fourth stage of the carrier rocket, the payloads were released. The PSLV flew in the CA, or Core Alone, configuration, with no solid rocket boosters around the first stage.

The ten satellites aboard the rocket will be used for several purposes by a variety of organisations. The primary payload, Cartosat-2A, is a remote sensing satellite, which will be operated by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). IMS-1, also known as TWSAT, another ISRO remote sensing satellite, was the secondary payload. In addition, eight commercial payloads were flown, as part of the Nanosat Launch Service-4 and 5 programmes. There satellites were Cute 1.7+APD-2 and SEEDS-2 for the University of Tokyo, Japan, CanX-2 and CanX-6 for the University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies, Canada, Delfi-C3 for the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, AAUSAT-II for the w:University of Aalborg, Denmark, COMPASS-1 for Aachen University, Germany, and RUBIN-8 for German aerospace company OHB System.

This is the 21st orbital launch of 2008, and the second to be conducted by a PSLV. It is the 13th total PSLV launch. The next PSLV launch is scheduled for either July or December, with the Chandrayaan-I spacecraft, India’s first Lunar probe.

Nokia has launched the 2600 classic and Nokia 1209 handset models in India that is perfectly fine tuned for the Indian customers providing new features, style and value for money.

Phone sharing is a new innovation added to the Nokia 1209 model. Many household in India use a single mobile phone, this means that the mobile phones are not just used by a single member in the family but in fact shared by all the members. 1209 model are targeted to such customers. The 1209 mobile features prepaid tracker (a cost tracking application), multi-phone book (up to 5 users can store their personal list of contacts).

The power mode in the 1209 model gives a higher talk time from a single charge. There are 80 languages in-build to choose from. The phone is durable, reliable, tough, dust resistant, has a dual band GSM and 96×68k color screen. It is priced at Indian Rupees 1790.

The 2600 classic is a bit higher on the cost factor with price band of Rupees 3540. It features a VGA camera, MMS and Xpress Audio messaging support, and an FM radio. Customers can change the color of the phone with the fully-changeable Xpress-on covers. With the Nokia 2600 users can edit and record the messages on the move.