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ISRO satellites for Europe
DH News Service New Delhi:
Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has bagged two major contracts for building satellites for European customers besides orders to launch foreign satellites.
Taking a baby steps to establish itself as a reliable service provider in the $110 billion global satellite market, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has bagged two major contracts for building satellites for European customers besides orders to launch foreign satellites.
The Indian space agency will be constructing satellites for European telecom major Eutelsat as well as for a UK-based satellite communication company, Avanti Screen Media System. While the first deal was signed almost a year ago, the second one is a new one.
In both cases, the European companies will be providing the transponders while ISRO will make the satellite platform and assemble the satellite in Bangalore. Developed in collaboration with missile and satellite manufacturing company EADS, the Eutelsat satellite will be ready by 2008 while the other one is expected to be completed by 2009.
None are likely to be launched by Indian rockets.
But the indigenous polar satellite launch vehicle (PSLV) is expected to put an Italian satellite, Agile, in the 800 km polar orbit, close to the equator on Monday.
In a way, this will be the first commercial launch for ISRO as all the six foreign satellites launched by the ISRO so far rode piggy back on Indian satellites.
This time, an Indian experimental payload called advanced avionics module (AAM) will piggy back on the 350 kg satellite made by the Italian Institute of Astrophysics for studying X-ray and gamma-ray physics.
Early next year, ISRO will launch a 25kg pack containing six Canadian micro-satellite, developed by the University of Toronto, said K R Sridhara Murthi, the executive director of Antrix Corporation Ltd â the marketing arm of ISRO. Antrix has recorded a turnover of close to Rs 500 crore in 2006-07 with a profit of Rs 73 crore.
âWe are well set in space communication and the industry is growing. We are organising the international astronautical congress in Hyderabad in September where our competence will be exposed to foreign companies and other nations,â ISRO chairman G Madhavan Nair said here on Wednesday.
Fresh from her news making stay in the international space station Astronaut Sunita Williams is likely to attend the congress.
http://deccanherald.com/deccanherald/apr192007/national2232302007418.asp
DH News Service New Delhi:
Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has bagged two major contracts for building satellites for European customers besides orders to launch foreign satellites.
Taking a baby steps to establish itself as a reliable service provider in the $110 billion global satellite market, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has bagged two major contracts for building satellites for European customers besides orders to launch foreign satellites.
The Indian space agency will be constructing satellites for European telecom major Eutelsat as well as for a UK-based satellite communication company, Avanti Screen Media System. While the first deal was signed almost a year ago, the second one is a new one.
In both cases, the European companies will be providing the transponders while ISRO will make the satellite platform and assemble the satellite in Bangalore. Developed in collaboration with missile and satellite manufacturing company EADS, the Eutelsat satellite will be ready by 2008 while the other one is expected to be completed by 2009.
None are likely to be launched by Indian rockets.
But the indigenous polar satellite launch vehicle (PSLV) is expected to put an Italian satellite, Agile, in the 800 km polar orbit, close to the equator on Monday.
In a way, this will be the first commercial launch for ISRO as all the six foreign satellites launched by the ISRO so far rode piggy back on Indian satellites.
This time, an Indian experimental payload called advanced avionics module (AAM) will piggy back on the 350 kg satellite made by the Italian Institute of Astrophysics for studying X-ray and gamma-ray physics.
Early next year, ISRO will launch a 25kg pack containing six Canadian micro-satellite, developed by the University of Toronto, said K R Sridhara Murthi, the executive director of Antrix Corporation Ltd â the marketing arm of ISRO. Antrix has recorded a turnover of close to Rs 500 crore in 2006-07 with a profit of Rs 73 crore.
âWe are well set in space communication and the industry is growing. We are organising the international astronautical congress in Hyderabad in September where our competence will be exposed to foreign companies and other nations,â ISRO chairman G Madhavan Nair said here on Wednesday.
Fresh from her news making stay in the international space station Astronaut Sunita Williams is likely to attend the congress.
http://deccanherald.com/deccanherald/apr192007/national2232302007418.asp
