Sriharikota, 28 Feb: NewSpace India Limited (NSIL) is a company owned by Government of India and run by Department of Space (DOS). NSIL (Like SpaceX) was primarily started to take up commercial (for profit) space related projects like launch of satellites for both Indian and foreign industries as well as governments of countries who wish to use this facility.
In the first launch for NSIL, which took place at 10:24 am on Feb 28th from Satish Dhawan Space Centre SHAR at Sriharikota, Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C51) successfully launched Amazonia-1 along with 18 other satellites.
Amazonia-1 is the optical earth observation satellite (satellite used for observation of earth from an orbit) of Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research (INPE).
The 18 other satellites onboard PSLV-C51 includes three university satellites (UNITYsats) designed and built by Jeppiaar Institute of Technology, Sriperumbudur, G.H.Raisoni College of Engineering, Nagpur and Sri Shakti Institute of Engineering and Technology, Coimbatore and one satellite from Space Kidz India program named as Satish Dhawan Sat. The remaining fourteen satellites from NSIL were commercial satellites, one from India and thirteen from the USA.
