The Indian Space Research Organization has managed to successfully deploy a record-setting ten satellites using only a single Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV). Russia held the previous single launch mission record with eight satellites.

At the end of the 52-hour countdown, the PSLV-C9, with a lift-off mass of 230 tonne, blasted off from the launch pad at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre and soared into the clear sky in a textbook launch. Fourteen minutes after lift off, the fourth stage of the ISRO's workhorse launch vehicle, in its 13th flight, injected the ten satellites, into the 635 km polar Sun Synchronous Orbit (SSO).

Delicious | Digg | Reddit | Technorati