ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation) announced that, it is all set to launch a record 83 satellites in one go using its workhorse PSLV-C37 in January, next year.

ISRO's chairman A S Kiran Kumar, said that, "We are working for a January launch. It will be toward the end of January. The date has to be fixed."

80 satellites out of 83 belongs to United States, Kazakhstan, Israel, Netherlands and Switzerland. The three Indian satellites are INS-IA and INS-1B, weighing 30 kg and Cartosat-2 series, weighing 730 kg as primary payload.

Calling 2016 a "good" year, Kumar said ISRO would launch at least five communication satellites in 2017.

"It (launches) will be more next year, we are actually looking at almost something like five communication satellites, then many more others. Some earth observation also," he said. "In the year we are primarily trying to do our GSLV Mark III, then Mark II one more launch we are trying to do," Kumar added.

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