The team behind India’s space race
India scripted a new chapter and a formidable world record in the history of space exploration in 2017 with the launch of 104 satellites in one go by ISRO’ PSLV mission. Out of the 104 satellites in orbit, 96 satellites belonged to the USA and one each from Israel, UAE, Netherlands, Kazakhstan and Switzerland.
As the rocket lifts off from Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh, one after another, four stages of the rocket push the 320-ton PSLV (equivalent to the weight of 50 full grown elephants) higher into space. PSLV first injected its main payload Cartosat-2 series, india’s indigenously built earth observation satellite, followed by India’s two nano satellites INS-1A and INS-1B. It then took less than 10 minutes for the rocket to launch 101 passengers which were all foreign nano satellites, as it travelled up in altitude reaching polar sun synchronous orbit.
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