Go ISRO! I wish the Indian Govt did one less scam a year and granted a 10X increase in ISRO budget. But you are doing some amazing work on an operating budget less than a big American University. Stay Strong ! And go Mars in 2014!

One of the awesome satellites was BRITE, made by the UTIAS group http://universe.utoronto.ca/BRITE at the University of Toronto!

Part of the payload is a nano satellite - STRaND-1 - developed by the University of Surrey (England), that amongst other things got a Google Nexus phone onboard loaded with a custom app which will test if "in space no-one can hear you scream" http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21577780

ISRO has been delivering tangible output with limited resources. They are also profitable.

I wish GSLV was ready, wish ISRO has more budget, wish we have a bigger workforce in space R&D. I'm sad that after so many years we don't have a reliable launcher other than PSLV, though it GETS the work done.

Video of the launch https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&...

one thing particularly good about ISRO's recent strategy is to launch as many satellites as possible. It's cost effective and also helping academic satellites. and PSLV the workhorse of ISRO.

congratulations ISRO. They also have a google maps like app with GIS data layers like Water bodies, roads, villages with population, soil erosion, forest fires, drought etc. http://bhuvan3.nrsc.gov.in/bhuvan/bhuvan/bhuvan2d.html

Next mission - man on mars!