India's satellite PSLV creates history !!!

• Setting a world record, India's Polar rocket on Monday(28th April 2008 at 9:23AM) successfully placed ten satellites, including the country's remote sensing satellite, (Cartosat-2A )into orbit in a single mission.


• It is for the first time in the world that ten satellites were launched in a single mission. Russia had earlier luanched eight satellites together.


• Besides the 690 kg CARTOSAT-2A, the PSLV-C9 is also carrying ISRO's Indian Mini Satellite-1, weighing 83 kg, and eight nano satellites built by universities and research institutes in Canada and Germany .


• While the CARTOSAT-2A, carrying state-of-the-art panchromatic camera, will be used for mapping purposes and management of natural resources, the IMS-1 will be used as a platform for trying out advanced technology in future launches.


• The high-resolution mapping satellite CARTOSAT 2-A, which, while placed at a height of over 600 kilometres, can identify objects as small as a car.