India is all set to script history by launching a record number of 22 satellites, including a number of micro and nano ones from foreign countries, in a single mission in May this year. Apart from the Indian remote sensing satellite, Cartosat 2C, which constitutes the primary payload, the the PSLV C34 rocket will carry on board four micro-satellites weighing 85 to 130 kg each and 17 nano-satellites weighing 4 to 30 kg.

• As many as 18 satellites are being launched for foreign agencies including those from the U.S., Canada, Germany, and Indonesia.
• Two of the nano-satellites have been developed by the Pune Engineering College and Sathyabhama University.
• The micro-satellites include the M3MSAT of Comdev, Canada, to be used for collection and study of automatic identification system signals from low earth orbit.
• The Indonesian satellite LAPAN A3 for earth surveillance and magnetic field monitoring.
• The German satellite BIROS to be used for remote sensing of high temperature events and SKYSAT Gen2-1 of Skybox, U.S., for earth imaging.
• The nano-satellite payload includes three quadpacks of four earth imaging technology demonstrator satellites each of Spaceflight, U.S., and a package of two Canadian satellites designed to measure greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
• In April 2008, ISRO had launched 10 satellites into orbit using the PSLV C9 rocket.