India’s space organisation – ISRO, the Indian Space Research Organisation today successfully launched Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) C 37 from Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh.
ISRO’s launcher on Wednesday carried a suite of 104 satellites in one go.
This included 101 nano-satellites (weighing below 10 kilograms each) from five countries — the United States, Netherlands, Israel, Kazakhstan and Switzerland — along with a couple of Indian nano-satellites and a heavy Cartosat.
Record 104 satellites launched on board single rocket #PSLVC37 by #ISRO from #Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh @ISRO https://t.co/FGM9Um1Y8y pic.twitter.com/dVELhbs7t2 — NDTV (@ndtv) February 15, 2017
According to B Jayakumar, mission director, the focus of the launch is anything but “creating records”; instead the idea is “to utilise the excess capacity available on the PSLV.”
The PSLV has a payload capacity of more than 1,500 kilos, but it’s carrying only 1,360 on this mission.
This was ISRO’s first space mission for the year 2017, and the most complicated it has ever carried out. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Pranab Mukherjee congratulated the space agency for the historic event that significantly boosts India’s space programme.
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