Elon Musk congratulates ISRO and makes every Indian's day

Elon Musk paid tribute to ISRO on Twitter, much to the delight of Indians across the world. 

ISRO made history by successfully inserting 104 satellites as part of a single launch today. Of the multitude of piggybacked satellites that comprised this launch, 88 of them are owned by a company called Planet Labs. And they aim to do something pretty spectacular with them--to create an earth-sized selfie camera that takes daily snapshots of virtually every part of the earth’s surface.

During his morning interactions on the social media site, one follower asked Musk what he thought of ISRO's achievements?

@Floydilicious Yeah, awesome achievement by ISRO. Very impressive!

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 16, 2017

He also said ISRO was doing India proud

@VRGTech @Floydilicious They are doing India proud

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 16, 2017

ISRO launched a record 104 satellites, from seven different countries, into orbit on Wednesday. The agency was using its PSLV-C37 workhorse for the mission, which had a previous best of 20 simultaneous satellite launches. The countdown for the launch of PSLV-C37/Cartosat2 Series satellite mission began at 5:28 AM soon after the Mission Readiness Review committee and Launch Authorisation Board gave its approval for lift off. PSLV first launched the 714 kg CARTOSAT-2 Series satellite for earth observation and then injected 103 co-passenger satellites, together weighing about 664 kg at lift-off into polar Sun Synchronous Orbit, about 520 km from Earth.