India to launch 12 foreign satellites
India is planning to launch 12 foreign satellites in the lower orbit from its spaceport over the next two years. India has received multi-million contracts from Canada, Indonesia, Germany and other European countries to launch a dozen satellites in the sun-synchronous orbit during the next two years.
India has received these orders through its commercial arm Antrix Corporation. There will be four satellites from Canada, two each from Indonesia and Germany, one from Luxembourg and three spacecraft from universities in Europe. The German satellite has to be launched for environmental purposes and the other satellites have to be launched as additional payloads along with other Indian communications or remote-sensing satellites.
In the past decade, India has launched 26 foreign satellites for some countries like Germany, Italy, Israel, Korea and Singapore. And it is having talks with France to launch a remote sensing satellite in the lower orbit.
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