NewSpace India Limited (NSIL)
TypePublic Sector Undertaking
Industry
Founded6 March 2019; 3 years ago (2019-03-06) [1]
HeadquartersHFSC Building, ISRO HQ, New BEL Road,
Bengaluru, Karnataka
,
India
Key people
Radhakrishnan Durairaj (CMD)
A. Arunachalam (Director, Technical & Strategy) [2]
Services
OwnerDepartment of Space (DoS) [3]
Websitensilindia.co.in

NewSpace India Limited (NSIL) is a Public Sector Undertaking (PSU) of Government of India and commercial arm of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). It was established on 6 March 2019 under the administrative control of Department of Space (DoS) and the Company Act 2013. The main objective of NSIL is to scale up private sector participation in Indian space programmes.[4][5][6]

Objectives

NSIL was setup with the following objectives:[7]

Contracts

In 2022, NSIL executed a contract with OneWeb to launch 36 satellites to low earth orbit for their satellite internet constellation.

References

  1. ^ "New Company for Commercial Exploitation of Research and Development (Under The Company Act 2013)". 27 June 2019. Retrieved 21 December 2019.
  2. ^ "NSIL functional directors". Retrieved 15 July 2020.
  3. ^ "NSIL About Us". Retrieved 21 December 2019.
  4. ^ "ISRO's new commercial arm NewSpace India officially inaugurated". smartinvestisor.business-standard.com. The Smart Investor. 27 August 2019. Archived from the original on 27 August 2019. Retrieved 27 August 2019.
  5. ^ "NewSpace India Limited (NSIL) - ISRO". www.isro.gov.in. Retrieved 30 April 2022.
  6. ^ Narasimhan, T. E. (5 July 2019). "Budget 2019: FM hikes Dept of Space outlay, pushes for commercialisation". Business Standard India. Archived from the original on 27 August 2019. Retrieved 27 August 2019.
  7. ^ "NewSpace India Limited". Press Information Bureau, Government of India. 24 July 2019. Retrieved 26 August 2019.
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