Bangalore, Aug. 9 (PTI): India's space agency will next year launch a special platform to put into space miniature satellites catering to the needs of developing countries and the domestic scientific community, its chief said on Wednesday.

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is developing a 100-kg "satellite bus" as demand has picked up for launching nano-satellites, its Chairman G Madhavan Nair said.

"We are trying to look at a small platform which can take up scientific experiments or may even be used for various cluster formations and things like that," Nair said.

"So from that angle, a 100-kg bus is being developed. We are going to launch it for the first time next year."