Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will launch 83 satellites at one go, in January 2017, the Lok Sabha informed everyone on Wednesday.?
Making it a one-of-its-kind project, 80 satellites, weighing 500 kg, in this project will belong to foreign countries -?Israel, Kazakhstan, Netherlands, Switzerland and the US.
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¡°These international customer satellites are being launched as part of the commercial arrangement between them and Antrix Corporation Ltd, the commercial arm and PSU under the ISRO,¡± Jitendra Singh, minister of state in the PMO said in a written reply. The Department of Space comes under the PMO.
Cartosat-2 series weighing 730 kg as primary payload, INS-IA and INS-1B will be the 3 Indian satellites in this project,?weighing 30 kg in total.?
Prior to this, India has launched 86 Indian satellites of many types since its first in 1975.
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