PM meets ISRO scientists

After creating history by putting ten satellites into orbit from a single space platform, a panel of scientists from the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in New Delhi on Monday. ISRO chairman G Madhavan Nair, presented Singh with a miniature model of the PSLV C-9, which had carried the ten satellites into space, on April 29. On its 13th flight, the 230-tonne PSLV-C9 carried the 690-kg Cartosat-2A, an 83 kg indigenous mini satellite called IMS-1 and eight foreign nano satellites from Canada and Germany.