Isro's workhorse rocket PSLV-C43 on Thursday successfully injected into orbit India's earth observation satellite HysIS.

Thirty other co-passenger international satellites, among these some from the US and Australia, will soon be placed into orbit.

The rocket lifted off into cloudy skies at 9.57 am from the first launchpad at this spaceport at the end of the 28-hour countdown.

ISRO chief K. Sivan and the space agency's scientists broke into celebration as the earth observation satellite was injected into the sun-synchronous polar orbit.

The primary mission of the Hyper Spectral Imaging Satellite (HysIS), whose mission life is five years, is to study the earth's surface in visible near infra-red and shortwave infra-red regions of the electromagnetic spectrum.

It is the primary satellite of the PSLV-C43 mission, which is on its 45th flight.

The mass of the spacecraft is about 380 kg, and the satellite would be placed in 636 km-polar sun synchronous orbit with an inclination of 97.957 degree, ISRO said.

The co-passenger satellites have been contracted for launch through ISRO's commercial arm Antrix Corporation Limited.

PSLV-C43, is the 'Core Alone' version of PSLV. It is the lightest version of the launch vehicle.

This is ISRO's second launch this month.

The space agency had launched its latest communication satellite GSAT-29 on board GSLV MkIII-D2 on November 14.