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List of foreign satellites launched by India

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This is a list of all the foreign satellites launched by India. India has launched 431 satellites for 34 countries as of 30 July 2023.[1] As of 2019, the Indian Space Research Organisation, India's government space agency, is the only launch-capable agency in India, and launches all research and commercial projects.

Commercial launches for foreign nations are negotiated through NSIL (formerly through Antrix), the ISRO's commercial arm. Between 2013 and 2015, India launched 28 foreign satellites for nine countries, earning revenue of US$101 million.[2]

As of October 2022, the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle and GSLV Mk III are the launch vehicles utilized for international commercial launches. In addition, the Small Satellite Launch Vehicle is currently in development for international commercial launches of small satellites the vehicle made its first successful flight on 10 February 2023.[3]

On 15 February 2017, ISRO launched 104 satellites on single launch by a PSLV-XL. 96 of them were from the United States, while the others were from Israel, the UAE, Kazakhstan, the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany.[4] It was the largest number of satellites launched on a single flight by any space agency (with the previous record held by Russia's Dnepr launcher, which launched 37 in June 2014)[5] until 24 January 2021, when SpaceX launched the Transporter-1 mission on a Falcon 9 rocket carrying 143 satellites into orbit.[6]

1990s

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No. Satellite Country Launch date Launch mass Launch vehicle Remarks
1 DLR-Tubsat  Germany 26 May 1999 45 kg PSLV-C2 ISRO's 1st commercial launch with foreign satellites as payload. India's Oceansat-1 was also launched. This was PSLV's 3rd launch overall.
2 Kitsat-3  Republic of Korea 110 kg

2000s

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No. Satellite Country Launch date Launch mass Launch vehicle Remarks
3 BIRD  Germany 22 October 2001 92 kg PSLV-C3 ISRO's 2nd commercial launch.
4 PROBA  Belgium 94 kg
5 Lapan-TUBsat  Indonesia 10 January 2007 56 kg PSLV-C7
6 Pehuensat-1  Argentina 6 kg
7 AGILE  Italy 23 April 2007 352 kg PSLV-C8 PSLV's 11th flight.
8 TecSAR  Israel 21 January 2008 295 kg PSLV-C10 PSLV's 12th launch.
9 CAN-X2  Canada 28 April 2008 3.5 kg PSLV-C9 ISRO launched 10 satellites, of which 8 were foreign.[7]
10 NLS-5 6.5 kg
11 Delfi-C3  Netherlands 2.2 kg
12 AAUSAT-II  Denmark 0.75 kg
13 COMPASS-1  Germany 1 kg
14 Rubin-8 8 kg
15 CUTE-1.7  Japan 3 kg
16 SEEDS-2 1 kg
17 UWE-2  Germany 23 September 2009 1 kg PSLV-C14 ISRO launched 7 satellites, of which 6 were foreign.[8]
18 BeeSat-1 1 kg
19 RUBIN-9.1 8 kg
20 RUBIN-9.2 8 kg
21 ITUpSAT1  Turkey 1 kg
22 SwissCube-1  Switzerland 1 kg

2010s

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2020s

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Satellites launched from India by country

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Data as of 22 July 2023, * indicates inclusion of satellites developed in international collaboration by particular country
No. Country Total Number of Satellites
1  United States 231
2  United Kingdom 86
3  Singapore 20
4  Germany 13*
5  Canada 12
6  Republic of Korea 6
7  Israel 5*
8  Italy 5
9  Japan 5
10  Luxembourg 5
11  Algeria 4
12  France 4
13  Lithuania 4
14  Switzerland 4*
15  Netherlands 3*
16  Austria 3
17  Finland 3
17  Indonesia 3
18  Belgium 2*
19  Denmark 2
20  Spain 2
22  Argentina 1
23  Australia 1
24  Brazil 1
25  Chile 1
26  Colombia 1
27  Czech Republic 1
28  China 1
29  Kazakhstan 1
30  Latvia 1
31  Malaysia 1
32  Mexico 1*
33  Norway 1
34  Slovakia 1
35  Turkey 1
36  United Arab Emirates 1
Total 36 countries 431 satellites

See also

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References

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