Monday, April 28, 2008

Setting a world record, India's Polar rocket on 28th april, successfully placed ten satellites, including the country's remote sensing satellite, into orbit in a single mission.


This is for the first time that ISRO has put ten satellites in orbit in a single launch. This is also the PSLV's twelfth successful flight.

It is for the first time in the world that ten satellites were launched in a single mission. Russia had earlier launched eight satellites together.


The ten-pack launch of the Indian Space Research Organisation saw the 230-tonne Polar Satellite launch Vehicle carry the heaviest luggage--824 kgs--and put into orbit an Indian Mini Satellite and eight foreign nano satellites besides the Cartosat-2A remote sensing satellite.
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