ISRO to launch 8 satellites, also commenced totaling Hylas spacecraft
Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has 8 satellites in its pipeline for launch and is reconnoitering to acquire such spacecraft from abroad to enlarge capability in the field of communication transponder.
KR Sridhara Murthi, Managing Director of Antrix Corporation, marketing arm of Bangalore headquartered Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), said, that they have 8 foreign satellites to be launched. They will be launched over the next 2-3yrs.
These satellites are a mixture of small and big satellites; he said but refused to furnish further information, mentioning that the space agency is yet to formally sign some of the agreements.
Just one foreign satellite that is being set for launch is a 150-kg satellite from Algeria, which is planned to be launched by Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle in April. Sridhara Murthi said ISRO is looking for chances to get foreign satellites.
As a matter of fact, it, along with its worldwide partners, lately unsuccessfully bid to acquire a satellite, which was put up for auctioning by a company facing bankruptcy, in the United States.
ISRO has also commenced totaling Hylas spacecraft, a deal it conjointly won with EADS-Astrium, and it would be delivered to the cleint, UK-based Avanti Screenmedia, in June.
Under the deal, EADS-Astrium is the key contractor accountable for overall programme management and would build the communications payload, while Antrix/ISRO would build the satellite with a take-off mass of 2.5 tonnes and power of 3.2 KW.
“This year we are producing a very sophisticated high definition television satellite (Hylas) – probably for the first time in the world”, Sridhara Murthi said.
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