On December 11, 2019 at 09:55 UTC the PSLV-QL C48 rocket-carrier was launched from Sriharikota spaceport (the Satish Dhawan Space Center), 80 km from Chennai, India. The rocket (PSLV - Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle) orbited 10 satellites. The prime payload aboard the PSLV was the “RISAT-2BR1” radar observation satellite. The rocket also orbited 9 nanosatellites.