<p>India will launch four foreign satellites in 2014-15 in the Earth's lower orbit, using its workhorse polar rocket, an Indian space agency official said Friday.<br /><br /></p>.<p>"Our commercial arm Antrix Corporation has signed agreements with a British firm Jan 29 and a Singapore agency Wednesday to launch their spacecraft onboard our polar satellite launch vehicle (PSLV)," an official of the state-run Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) told IANS here.<br /><br />The customers are DMC International Imaging, a subsidiary of the Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd., for launching its three 350-kg disaster monitoring satellites and ST Electronics (Satcom and Sensor Systems) Pte. Ltd., Singapore, for launch of its 400-kg TeLEOS-1 earth observation satellite.<br /><br />"The launches will take place between 2014-15 when we receive the spacecraft from the customers. Details of weight of satellites, instruments to be taken onboard and their location in the polar (north-south) orbit will be worked out in coming months," the official said.<br /><br />The satellites will be launched from the Indian spaceport at Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh off the Bay of Bengal.<br /><br />The space agency is working towards launching SPOT-7, a French satellite onboard the PSLV with four micro-satellites in March/April.<br /><br />"We are on track to launch Spot-7 in the next two months with four smaller satellites," the official said.<br /><br />An Indian rocket placed SPOT-6 in the earth's lower orbit Sep 8, 2012.<br /><br />The SPOT (Satellite Pour l'Observation de la Terre) is a constellation with a high-resolution optical imaging earth observation satellite system operated by the French space agency CNES (Centre National D'etudes Spatiales) at Toulouse since 1986.<br /><br />The space agency had earlier bagged a contract to launch an 800-kg German satellite EnMAP (Environmental Mapping and Analysis Programme) and a set of Canadian satellites this calendar year.<br /><br />Antrix, which posted a revenue of Rs.1,300 crore in last fiscal (2012-13), is projected to grow 15 percent in this fiscal (2013-14). The space agency has launched 35 foreign satellites over the last decade-and-a-half.</p>
<p>India will launch four foreign satellites in 2014-15 in the Earth's lower orbit, using its workhorse polar rocket, an Indian space agency official said Friday.<br /><br /></p>.<p>"Our commercial arm Antrix Corporation has signed agreements with a British firm Jan 29 and a Singapore agency Wednesday to launch their spacecraft onboard our polar satellite launch vehicle (PSLV)," an official of the state-run Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) told IANS here.<br /><br />The customers are DMC International Imaging, a subsidiary of the Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd., for launching its three 350-kg disaster monitoring satellites and ST Electronics (Satcom and Sensor Systems) Pte. Ltd., Singapore, for launch of its 400-kg TeLEOS-1 earth observation satellite.<br /><br />"The launches will take place between 2014-15 when we receive the spacecraft from the customers. Details of weight of satellites, instruments to be taken onboard and their location in the polar (north-south) orbit will be worked out in coming months," the official said.<br /><br />The satellites will be launched from the Indian spaceport at Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh off the Bay of Bengal.<br /><br />The space agency is working towards launching SPOT-7, a French satellite onboard the PSLV with four micro-satellites in March/April.<br /><br />"We are on track to launch Spot-7 in the next two months with four smaller satellites," the official said.<br /><br />An Indian rocket placed SPOT-6 in the earth's lower orbit Sep 8, 2012.<br /><br />The SPOT (Satellite Pour l'Observation de la Terre) is a constellation with a high-resolution optical imaging earth observation satellite system operated by the French space agency CNES (Centre National D'etudes Spatiales) at Toulouse since 1986.<br /><br />The space agency had earlier bagged a contract to launch an 800-kg German satellite EnMAP (Environmental Mapping and Analysis Programme) and a set of Canadian satellites this calendar year.<br /><br />Antrix, which posted a revenue of Rs.1,300 crore in last fiscal (2012-13), is projected to grow 15 percent in this fiscal (2013-14). The space agency has launched 35 foreign satellites over the last decade-and-a-half.</p>