New Delhi: Over the span from 2015 to 2024, India had claimed a total $143 million worth of foreign exchange revenue by launching foreign satellites.
This information is highlighted by Union MOS Jitendra Singh in the Lok Sabha in a written response to the global acknowledgment of India's worth in windows on the world economy.
From January 2015 to December 2024, the Indian space agency, ISRO, had the privilege of utilizing its vehicles PSLV, LVM3, and SSLV, having launched a total of 393 foreign satellites along with three Indian customer satellites.
The launches have placed India among leaders in terms of global satellite launching for other nations, spurring India's grown space industry. ISRO has launched satellites for countries from the world's most advanced nations.
It was interesting to see that the USA had provided the most satellite launches from India at 232. Among a few other countries that made good use of India space might are UK, Singapore, Canada, South Korea, Italy, Japan, Israel, and many.
This sequence of agreeable things affecting international collaborations were proved to be good building blocks for establishing India as a worthy player in global space exploration.
India is now working on substantive international cooperation in the space sector. There are 61 space agreements with 61 countries and 5 international organizations on joint ventures in areas of satellite remote sensing, navigation, communication, space science, planetary exploration, and capacity building. A few of these projects exempt India in the arena as an international playactor in space.
To set off an aggressive expansion, the disaster year was followed by hell of a tear for India with Chandrayaan-3 soft-landing at the South Pole of the Moon and Aditya-L1 sent to scrutinize the Sun. These missions signified Indian space technology has reached so much further up never before and now can mark the start of much more grand-scale projects, including India's maiden human spaceflight program.
As cleared down through a long run of projects, the human spaceflight program, Gaganyaan, is awaiting being launched later this year to prove beyond all doubt India's capability to launch man in space and return him safely back to earth.
Trending toward being declared a space power-state, aspiration from India further headlines a more raring future. By 2035, it wants to launch Bharatiya Antariksha Station and put a human mission on the moon by 2040. These are somersaults to show that India is all set to step into more uncharted territories in space exploration while standing for the cause of global science.
[Source Credit: NDTV]
