In a proud moment, at 9.28 am, today, the 15 February, 2017, ISRO's trusted PSLV-C37, on its 39th mission, lifted off the 104 satellites, of which 101 belongs to international customers, from Sriharikota space centre in Andhra Pradesh. The PSLV-C37 (Indian rocket Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle) lifted off successfully from the spaceport of Sriharikota, that is about 125 km from Chennai. This is a world record in the space technology to carry 104 satellites in one launcher.
“The Cartosat satellite is the fourth one in the Cartosat-2 series of earth observation satellites. Already three are in the orbit and two more will be launched. Once all the six Cartosat-2 series satellites are launched the Cartosat-3 series would begin,” said an ISRO official.
101 nano satellites on board - one each from Israel, Kazakhstan, The Netherlands, Switzerland, the UAE and 96 from the US, as well as two nano satellites from India.
"This is a great moment for each and every one of us. Today we have created history," project director B Jayakumar said.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated the team of ISRO through his tweets.
By Premji
