The vehicle carried three satellites which were deployed in the Sun-synchronous low Earth orbit.

[1][2][3][4][5] The vehicle carried India's first remote sensing satellite Oceansat-1 (IRS-P4) as the main payload.

[1] PSLV-C2 was the first Indian Expendable launch vehicle to carry and deploy more than one satellite in a mission.

The mission was planned with pre-flight prediction of perigee and apogee of 727 km (452 mi).

[1][2][3][4][5][7] The launch was witnessed by Atal Bihari Vajpayee (then Prime Minister of India), Murli Manohar Joshi, Vasundhara Raje and N. Chandrababu Naidu.