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Re:ISRO to launch record 104 satellites on Feb 15 by jccooper on Saturday February 11, 2017 @02:51PM (#13624390)
If a satellite has its own maneuvering capabilities, it can change its orbit (somewhat). These are mostly nanosats and cannot do that, so they'll stay in closely-related orbits. Spring-loaded separation from the launch vehicle will give them some difference, which will be magnified over time.

Some rideshare launches have multiple burns of the upper stage to put payloads in different orbits. The PSLV can do that, though I don't know if this one will.

Re:ISRO to launch record 104 satellites on Feb 15 by ajeet_dhaliwal on Saturday February 11, 2017 @03:04PM (#13624492)
So released individually / batches over the course of multiple burns at the upper stage. An animation would be cool.