India has successfully put a record 104 satellites from a single rocket into orbit on Wednesday smashing a record previously held by Russia which launched 39 satellites in a single mission in June 2014.
The rocket took off at 9:28am (03:58 GMT) and cruised at a speed of 27,000km per hour, ejecting all the 104 satellites into orbit in around 30 minutes, according to ISRO.
The rocket's main cargo was a 714kg satellite for earth observation, but it was also loaded with 103 smaller "nano satellites", weighing a combined 664kg.
Nearly all of the nano satellites are from other countries, including Israel, Kazakhstan, The Netherlands, Switzerland, United Arab Emirates and 96 from the United States.
The Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has often hailed India's budget space technology, in which the country in 2014 launched four foreign satellites into orbit with a cost less than that to make the Hollywood film "Gravity".
Now the thing that bothers me most is that India which is a developing country as Nigeria claims to be can boost of this feat. Then I ask myself when are we going to achieve a great feat like this.
Source: http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/02/india-puts-record-104-satellites-orbit-170215045330358.html