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India launches domestic Radar Imaging Satellite into Orbit

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Risat-1 with one of its solar panel wings is seen at the Satish Dhawan Space Center. India says it has successfully positioned its first domestically-built radar imaging satellite into orbit from a spaceport in the east coast of the country. The Risat-1 satellite, aboard a 321-ton launch rocket, took off at 5:47 am (0027 GMT) Thursday from the spaceport of Sriharikota in the southern state of Andhra... 
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