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ISRO arm begins search for PSLV makers
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NewSpace India Ltd (NSIL), the new public sector space business company, launched a formal search for industry consortia which can regularly manufacture and deliver entire PSLV satellite launch vehicles for its parent, the ISRO.
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- Requirements from industry consortia:(1) NSIL will initially outsource five PSLVs- Indian rockets that can lift light payloads to ‘low earth orbits’ some 600 km in space.(2) The four-stage PSLV is needed to place both Indian remote sensing satellites and small satellites of foreign customers to space.
- NSIL roles and functions: NSIL has been incorporated to carry out the following roles and functions as part of its madate:(1) Small Satellite technology transfer to industry, wherein NSIL will obtain license from DOS/ISRO and sub-license it to Industries.(2) Manufacture of Small Satellite Launch Vehicle (SSLV) in collaboration with Private Sector.(3) Productionisation of Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) through Indian Industry.(4) Productionisation and marketing of Space based products and services, including launch and application.(5) Transfer of technology developed by ISRO Centres and constituent units of DOS.(6) Marketing spin-off technologies and products/services, both in India and abroad.(7) Any other subject which Government of India deems fit.
- ISRO and private industries:(1) For almost a decade, ISRO has been planning to hand the production over to public and private industries and itself focus on its core job of space R&D.(2) On the satellite side, groups of industries are already helping ISRO in AIT and have produced a couple of mid-sized satellites.(3) ISRO also has two increasingly more powerful launchers in that order — the GSLV and the GSLV-Mk III, used to lift 2,000 kg and 4,000 kg communication satellites to higher orbits.