India has firm orders to launch 12 foreign satellites

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India has firm orders to launch 12 foreign satellites

India has firm orders to launch 12 foreign satellites, IBN Live News
PTI | 08:06 PM,Jun 01,2011

Bangalore, Jun 1 (PTI) India has firm orders to launch 12 foreign satellites over the next few years, Chairman of Indian Space Research Organisation K Radhakrishnan said today. He said ISRO has so far launched 26 foreign satellites by the home-grown Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV). "We have today about 12 satellites...a firm order is there and scheduled to be launched in the coming two years," he told reporters. ISRO officials said these satellites were mainly Canadian, German and Indonesian, including a 800-kg spacecraft - environment monitoring satellite - from DLF Germany. Others mainly fall in the 40-100 kg category though there are some micro-satellites also that India would launch. Officials of the space agency would not talk about price-points for these launches, terming them to be "market-sensitive". But market sources say launching one kg of payload would cost around USD 20,000. Asked if the controversial Antrix-Devas deal (Antrix is the marketing arm of ISRO) had an impact on ISRO in terms of "pull-back" on launches of foreign satellites from Indian soil, Radhakrishnan replied in negative. "We do not think (that there is an impact). There is a very strong demand for launching a few of the world-class remote sensing satellites by (India''s) PSLV", he said.

 

[Varad]

Great news for ISRO.Hopefully more orders will be placed for the coming years.

 

[Firemaster]

once GSLV series is perfected . foreign order will be much higher then this

 

[kingdurgaking]

when we perfect cryogenic engine we can see that we will become the hub for launches... we have to perfect them even if we fail 10 times

 

[Safriz]

very well done india.

 

[madooxno9]

come on ...that the best news of the day after ramdev babaji's hunger strike ...

 

[Omega007]

The indigenous cryogenic engine has to be perfected asap.

 

[punit]

wow .. now indigenous GSLV is all we need

 

[saumyasupratik]

Good news.

I guess the new trend will be to outsource all satellite launches to India. XD

 

[Kinetic]

Good going ISRO. They should look at commercial space launch more frequently.

 

[Zeeshan360]

Good new . Thanks for sharing

 

[rajusri]

12 satellites launch in two years.

 

[johnny boy]

indigenous cryogenic engines must be perfected at all...failures come but we should not care........ill quote a famous saying of swami vivekananda :-"never mind failures ,....they are a beauty of life ..besides what would be life without them"