Indian Space Scientists Create Record: 10 Satellite launched in one go

Hyderabad

Monday:  The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) created a record today at 10.00 a.m.  Local time by successfully launching a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, PSLV-C9 with ten satellites of different sizes.
The PSLV rocket, was launched from Satish Dhawan Space Center at Sriharikota which carried country’s latest remote sensing satellite Cartosat-2A, another Mini satellite IMPS-1 and 8 Nano satellite.
The count down for the launch began on Saturday itself and all arrangements were in place for the launch, which began at 9.23 am today, the process was carried out in various stages which was greeted by cheers from the scientists.

Cartosat, used for maps, weighs 690 kg  the mini remote sensing satellite weighs only 83 kg.
The 8 nano satellites, weigh only 50 kg.

 Two of the nano satellites belong to Japan, two each belong to Germany and Toronto University, Canada.
The other satellites are from Denmark and the Netherlands.
These small satellites have been developed by using the nano technology for the first time.
The 44 meters long PSLV rocket, produced with in the country weighs 230 tons.
Lot was at stake for the ISRO scientists as the payload carried by the vehicle was very large belonging to different countries.

The whole process completed by 10.00 o clock and as the final satellite was launched, the scientist heaved a sigh of relief and greeted each other with thunderous applause.

 ISRO officials said that it was a very complicated and sensitive operation because different satellites were to be placed in different orbits.

The earlier record of carrying the maximum number of satellites was held by PSLV-C7 launched in January last year which carried four satellites including India’s own Cartosat-2, space capsule recovery experiment vehicle and one satellite each of Argentina and Indonesia.
This launch will also provide major boost for the preparation by ISRO for chandrayan Mission.

The mission to moon is the next major project for the scientists.