On June 30, 2014 at 04:22 UTC the PSLV C-23 rocket-carrier was launched from the Satish Dhawan Space Center on Sriharikota Island, India's primary launch site on the country's east coast about 50 miles north of Chennai. The PSLV (Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle) rocket orbited the French "Spot 7” commercial Earth imaging satellite. In addition to the "Spot 7” satellite, the following micro satellites were orbited: CanX-4 and CanX-5 (Canada); AISat (Germany) and Velox-1 (Nanyang Technical University in Singapore).