India - Space - India's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) C-9

The Indian space agency created a unique world record by successfully launching 10 satellites in one go, shattering the previous record of a Russian rocket which was actually a modified intercontinental ballistic missile that launched 8 satellites in one shot last April 17. The Indian rocket the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) the smaller of the two Indian rockets and its real workhorse in its 12 th consecutively successful launch placed 2 Indian and 8 foreign satellites in their precise orbits. The PSLV weighed a whopping 230 tons or as much as the weight of 50 elephants and stands as high as a 12 storey building at over 44 meters in length it hoisted 10 satellites into orbit. It carried two Indian satellites and eight foreign satellite (Canada, The Netherlands, Japan, Denmark and Germany) (Photo by Pallava Bagla/Corbis via Getty Images)