"The Wednesday's launch is India's latest triumph for its space programme," a Global Times report said. "In 2014, India became the fourth country to successfully send a spacecraft to orbit Mars, signalling a regional rivalry with China which suffered a failure in its Mars mission in 2012," it said. "India cannot match them yet unless it has enough rockets types to fulfil all satellites launches," it quoted Zhang as saying.Xue Lijun, general manager assistant of Shenzhen Aerospace Dongfanghong Development Ltd said that India's launch on Wednesday is a breakthrough in terms of numbers, but not in technology. "Technologically speaking, the launch did not have any big difficulties... what [Indian engineers] need to do is to avoid the conflicts among satellites, which involves lots of calculation and data analysis, but is not a tough task," Xue told the daily. "The 104 satellites are mostly in the same orbit, indicating that India still lacks capabilities of sending multiple satellites into various orbits," the report quoted the "experts" as saying.

Source: Times of India February 20, 2017 08:20 UTC