SRIHARIKOTA, ANDHRA PRADESH: HIGHLIGHTS India's space agency ISRO placed 20 satellites in space today. More than half are for US, only 3 for India. India competing for bigger share of $300 billion global space industry. Shortly after 9 am, India successfully launched a rocket which deposited a record 20 satellites in 26 minutes - proof that the country's famously frugal space agency, ISRO, is headed for a larger slice of the lucrative commercial space market. The rocket blasted off from the southern spaceport of Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh, carrying satellites mainly for international customers including the US, Germany and a Google-owned company. It was the most satellites India has put in space at one go, though Russia set the record of 37 for a single launch in 2014.
