Remarkable feat, India salutes our scientists: PM Modi congratulates ISRO on successful launch of 104 satellites

Written By DNA Web Team | Updated: Feb 15, 2017, 10:23 AM IST

People watch as India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C37) carrying 104 satellites in a single mission lifts off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, India February 15, 2017

Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweeted his congratulations on the launch conducted by the state-run Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) that went off smoothly and was carried live on national TV news channels.

In a proud moment for the country, India on Wednesday scripted history by launching 104 satellites on a single rocket.

The space agency launched satellites using its PSLV-C37 workhorse for the mission, which had a previous best of 20 simultaneous satellite launches.

Taking to micro-blogging site Twitter, Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated ISRO for its remarkable achievement. “Congratulations to @isro for the successful launch of PSLV-C37 and CARTOSAT satellite together with 103 nano satellites!” he tweeted.

Spoke to the Secretary, Department of Space and congratulated him & the entire team of scientists on today's exceptional achievement.
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) February 15, 2017

This remarkable feat by @isro is yet another proud moment for our space scientific community and the nation. India salutes our scientists.
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) February 15, 2017

Space agency chief A S Kiran Kumar also stated that PM Narendra Modi has congratulated the ISRO team for its successful launch of 104 satellites.

PSLV first launched the 714 kg CARTOSAT-2 Series satellite for earth observation and then injected 103 co-passenger satellites, together weighing about 664 kg at lift-off into polar Sun Synchronous Orbit, about 520 km from Earth.