New Delhiinfo-icon on Friday launched a rocket carrying dozens of satellites from Indiainfo-icon and six other countries from its island spaceinfo-icon centre.

Chairman of the Indian Space Researchinfo-icon Organization, A.S. Kiran Kumar, said the satellites successfully reached orbit after the polar satellite launch vehicle took off from Sriharikota, an island off Andhra Pradesh state in the country's southeast.

Apart from two Indian weather satellites, the rocket carried 28 micro and nano-satellites from Canadainfo-icon, Finlandinfo-icon, Franceinfo-icon, South Koreainfo-icon, the United Kingdominfo-icon and the United Statesinfo-icon.

The lift-off was postponed by a minute because of fear of collision with space debris, the New Delhi Television news channel said. The last launch of India's first privately built satellite failed in August because of a heat shield problem.

Friday's launch is the latest in a string of successes for the Indian space agency.

Last June, India launched its heaviest-ever rocket it hopes will eventually be able to carry astronauts into space, a feat only Russiainfo-icon, the United States and Chinainfo-icon have achieved.

In 2013, India launched a space probe that has been orbiting Mars since September 2014.