New Delhi: The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has, since 1975, launched a total of 129 satellites of Indian origin and 342 foreign satellites of 36 countries, of which 39 satellites are commercial satellites and rest nano satellites, the Parliament was informed on Thursday.
"India has a total of 53 operational satellites in space providing various identified services to the nation. Total 21 of these are communication satellites, eight are navigation satellites, 21 are Earth observation satellites and three are science satellites," Union Minister of State for Space, Dr Jitendra Singh told the Rajya Sabha in written replies to two different questions.
From 2016-2017 to 2021-2022, a total of 285 customer satellites from 29 foreign countries were successfully launched on-board PSLV on a commercial basis. The number of foreign satellites launched year-wise are 122 in 2016-2017, 57 in 2017-2018, 32 in 2018-2019, 50 in 2019-2020, and 23 in 2020-2021, he said.
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