Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has begun the 59-hour countdown for the launch of 6 Singapore satellites onboard its Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) C29, from Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh.

PSLV is scheduled to launch at 6.00 pm on December 16, from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota. The 59 hr countdown activity of PSLV-C29/TeLEOS-1 Mission has started at 07:00 hr IST, Monday, December 14, 2015.

This would be PSLV’s 32nd flight carrying satellites. Antrix Corporation Ltd., the commercial arm of ISRO, has provided launch services in PSLV for 51 customer satellites from 20 countries. Of the six being carried on PSLv C29, TeLEOS-1 is the primary satellite weighing 400kg whereas the other five satellites include two micro-satellites and three nano-satellites. These would be launched into a 550-km circular orbit inclined at 15 degrees to the equator. TeLEOS-1 is the first Singapore commercial earth observation satellite and would be launched into a low Earth orbit for “remote sensing” applications.

Sania Mirza (India) and Martina Hingis (Switerzerland) has won the 2015 BNP Paribas WTA Finals Women’s double category.

In the final match played in Singapore, the Indo-Swiss duo defeated Spanish pair of Garbine Muguruza and Carla Suarez Navarro by 6-0, 6-3 score.

It overall ninth World Tennis Association (WTA) doubles titles won by the Indo-Swiss pair together in 2015 season so far. The duo earlier had won the Indian Wells Open, Miami Open, Charleston Opem, Wimbledon, US Open, Guangzhou Open, Wuhan Open and China Open.

They also have secured 2015’s WTA Year-End world number one ranking in Women’s double category.

 

BNP Paribas WTA Finals Women’s Single category

 

Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland won the BNP Paribas WTA Finals Women’s in the singles category.

In the final match she defeated, Petra Kvitova of Czech Republic by 6-2, 4-6, 6-3 score to win her maiden WTA Finals title.