NewSpace India Limited (NSIL) is a

Public Sector Undertaking A state-owned enterprise (SOE) is a government entity which is established or nationalised by the ''national government'' or ''provincial government'' by an executive order or an act of legislation in order to earn profit for the governmen ...

(PSU) of

Government of India The Government of India (ISO: ; often abbreviated as GoI), known as the Union Government or Central Government but often simply as the Centre, is the national government of the Republic of India, a federal democracy located in South Asia, c ...

and commercial arm of

Indian Space Research Organisation The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO; ) is the national space agency of India, headquartered in Bengaluru. It operates under the Department of Space (DOS) which is directly overseen by the Prime Minister of India, while the Chairman ...

(ISRO). It was established on 6 March 2019 under the administrative control of

Department of Space The Department of Space is an Indian government department responsible for administration of the Indian space program. It manages several agencies and institutes related to space exploration and space technologies. The Indian space program und ...

(DoS) and the Company Act 2013. The main objective of NSIL is to scale up private sector participation in Indian space programmes.

Objectives

NSIL was setup with the following objectives: * Transfer of Small Satellite technology to industry: NSIL will obtain license from DoS/ISRO and sub-license the same to industry * Manufacture of

Small Satellite Launch Vehicle The Small Satellite Launch Vehicle (SSLV) is a small-lift launch vehicle developed by ISRO with payload capacity to deliver to low Earth orbit () or to Sun-synchronous orbit () for launching small satellites, with the capability to support m ...

(SSLV) in collaboration with private sector * Production of

Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle The Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) is an expendable medium-lift launch vehicle designed and operated by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). It was developed to allow India to launch its Indian Remote Sensing (IRS) satellites ...

(PSLV) through Indian industry * Production and marketing of Space based products and services, including launch and application * Transfer of technology developed by ISRO Centres and constituent units of DoS * Marketing of spin-off technologies and products/services, both in India and abroad

Contracts

In 2022, NSIL executed a contract with

OneWeb OneWeb (legally Network Access Associates Ltd) is a communications company that aims to build broadband satellite Internet services. The company is headquartered in London, and has offices in Virginia, US and a satellite manufacturing facility ...

to launch 36 satellites to low earth orbit for their

satellite internet constellation A satellite internet constellation is a constellation of artificial satellites providing satellite internet service. In particular, the term has come to refer to a new generation of very large constellations (sometimes referred to as a megacon ...

References

Government-owned companies of India Commercial launch service providers Space programme of India 2019 establishments in Karnataka Indian companies established in 2019 Companies based in Bangalore {{Space-stub