Yes, It's true they(ISRO) are planning this mission on Feb 15, 2017. Indian Space Research Organisation is on the eve of making history. When it send the 104 satellite on board the PSLV C-37 rocket it will become the first country in the world to send this huge count of satellites simultaneously.
The major chunk of the payload around 88 satellites is a cube-sats from US based earth observation company called PLANET, each weigh 5kg , also called as Doves or Flock-3p. Remaining satellite are from Germany, UAE, Kazakhstan, Netherlands, Belgium and Israel. So far the record holder for lifting highest number of satellite is Russia 37 satellite in one go to orbit in June ,2014.
The scientist in ISRO told that " This remarkable feat can be achieved by perfect orientation of satellite in rocket and controlling the release of satellite with perfect choreograph" and they are looking forward for the successful launch.
INDIAN SATELLITES
In this 104 satellites, three of the satellite are Indian origin, major satellite is CARTOSAT-2 series (a very high resolution Earth observation satellite 650 kg)and other two Indian Nano satellites INS-1A& INS-1B each weigh about 10 kg with expected life span of one year
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