The Indian Space and Research Organization (ISRO) successfully launched ten satellites from its latest Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C9), a feat which has set a world record. India’s Space and Research organization is still a small and baby organization, merely 35 years old compared to the other space and research bodies around the world. ISRO has hence surpassed many of the giant and popular space organizations to earn this remarkable feat.

 

PSLV-C9, the launch vehicle has put two Indian and eight foreign satellites into the orbit. The launch vehicle weighs about 230 tons and is as high as a twelve storey building. With this remarkable feat, India has beaten the earlier record of Russia launching eight satellites at one go last year. The launch vehicle took off from Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh. After a gap of 100 seconds, all the satellites on board were sequentially dropped off one by one, with the mission being completed in a record time of twenty minutes. India’s mapping satellite CARTOSAT-2A was the first satellite to be launched in the orbit.