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1st LD Writethru: India launches 104 satellites in single space mission

Xinhua, February 15, 2017 Adjust font size:

India on Wednesday launched a record 104 satellites in a single space mission from the spaceport of Sriharikota in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh.

The satellites were launched into space on board state-owned Indian Space Research Organisation's workhorse rocket, Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV)-C37, at 9.28 a.m. (local time).

Among the 104 satellites are many belonging to international customers, the primary being the Earth-mapping Cartosat 2 series satellite, which weighs 714 kg.

Others are small satellites belonging to the U.S., Israel, Kazakhstan, the Netherlands, Switzerland and the United Arab Emirates.

If successful, this will be the Indian Space Research Organisation's second attempt after the launch of 23 satellites in a single space mission in June 2015.

In the past, the Russian Space Agency had launched 37 satellites at one go. Enditem