ISRO will launch foreign satellites

India is going places – well at least in space. Indian Space Research Organisation will launch four foreign satellites this year as it seeks to make further inroads into the international satellite-building and launch services market in 2009.

A communication satellite, W2M, built by ISRO on a commercial basis in partnership with EADS-Astrium of Europe, was successfully launched by the European Ariane-5 launch vehicle from the Guiana Space Centre at Kourou in French Guiana two weels ago.

The Indian space agency is gearing up to launch four satellites of Singapore, the Netherlands, Italy and Algeria. (These contracts were bagged by ISRO independently and not in partnership with EADS-Astrium).

The commercial operations of ISRO are managed by Antrix Corporation Ltd and this unit is headed by Managing Director K R Sridhara Murthy. The website of Antrix Corporation Ltd is:

http://www.antrix.gov.in/

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