My answer to How would you compare the ISRO feat of launching 104 satellites in space from a single launch vehicle?
Answer by Vishu Menon:
Imagine a lowly paid young nurse on morning duty in a common hospital ward. She has 104 different prescriptions in her left hand, 104 syringes, filled with a different drip for each prescription. 104 patients lie in haphazard rows and columns lying on their stomachs, waiting for the morning poke. She runs zigzag along multiple aisles, pulls down a pajama, looks at the prescription for bed 1, and pokes the syringe No.1. On to the next, pulls down the pajama, pokes syringe No.2, and then the Next.. so on till bed No. 104 purrs softly to show that his drip has gone in. Job done in 18 minutes flat.
That is what Indian Space Research Organization’s PSLV-C37 / Cartosat -2 Series Satellite did early morning on Februay 15, 2017. Remember the name. CartoSat. ISRO surely has many more carting to do in space in different lanes, many layers of altitude. Looks like ISRO desires to break even in funding, earning more than for keeps, not to be a burden on the Nation
The 104 space slots were for different nations (96 of them Americans, three Indians and the remaining 5 from other countries.
All went well. Patients are live and kicking. Applause.
Congratulations, ISRO scientists and engineers, data entry operators and data monitors, accountants and clerks, logistics managers and peons, contractors and couriers, spouses and children who waited while they were working overtime, and all those who are missed out in this list.
Your feat is hard to beat.
Sad, politicians will hog all the credit, praise Modi for having done little, and give themselves a pay-raise.
