India's big step towards Space


In 1999, India launched first foreign satellite by PSLV-C2. It was South Korea’s KitSat-3 and Germany’s DLR-TubSat. In 23rd April 2007, India launched its first commercial payload. PSLV-C8 launched Italian satellite ‘AGILE’ 23 minutes after liftoff. It was heard $11 million paid for the launch. India then joined elite group of USA, Russia, France, China and Japan with this feat. India launched record breaking 104 satellites on single rocket PSLV C-37 on Feb. 15, 2017 at 9:28 am IST. PSLV blasted off with 3 satellites from India (Cartosat-2, INS-1A, INS-1B) and 101 smaller satellites called Nanosats from US, the Netherlands (PEASS), Israel (BGUSat), UAE (Nayif-1), Kazakhstan(Al Farabi-1) and Switzerland (DIDO-2). Among 101 nanosats from US, 88 Doves are sent by PlanetLabs and 8 “Lemur-2” satellites for weather tracking. By end of 2019, India crossed the milestone of launching 300 foreign satellites (319 to be precise at end of 2019) when PSLV-XL launched 13 nano-satellites. In 10 year span of 2008-18, India launched 143 satellites from USA.

Between 2013 and 2015, India launched 28 foreign satellites for 13 different countries earning a total revenue of US$101 million. Antrix launched 239 satellites between 2016 and 2019 earning a total revenue of ₹6,289 crore (US$880 million).

 IN-SPACe—Indian National Space Promotion and Authorisation Centre—is fully functional and the other policies in the offing are ready to be unveiled.

The up and coming private space companies from India are-

  1. Skyroot
  2. Agnikul Cosmos
  3. Pixxel
  4. Bellatrix Aerospace

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