India's Giant Leap into Space

India launched (on January 10th, 2007) a 44.4-metre tall four-stage Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) into space which for the 1st time carried 4 satellites. (Google Maps view of the Launch site at Sriharikota, India)

Quoting Times of India

The four satellites are — Indigenous 680-kg Cartosat-2, 550-kg space capsule recovery experiment (SRE), 56-kg Lapan-Tubsat, a joint venture between Technical University of Berlin and Indonesian Space Agency, and six-kg Pehuensat-1 of Argentina.

Related: Indian Space Center