Chennai, Apr 27 (UNI) The Indian National Space Promotion and Authorization Centre (IN-SPACe),

an autonomous agency attached to the Department of Space (DOS), will aide private industries in

satellite bus manufacturing.

It has released An Announcement of Opportunity (AO) inviting NGEi to indigenously design, develop

and realize small satellite bus for providing hosted payload services.

In its website, IN-SPACe said it has hence taken an initiative to aide private industries to undertake

satellite bus manufacturing in India catering to hosted payload services and eventually become global spacecraft bus provider.

In this endeavor, IN-SPACe proposes to realize “Satellite Bus as a Service” in two phases; viz.,

Phase 1 – Develop the small satellite bus which can be used for hosted payload service (upto four

NGEi shortlisted through this AO) and Phase 2 - Enabling hosted payload services by supporting

up to two hosted payload missions (one/two NGEi selected through separate bidding process).

IN-SPACe functions as a single-window nodal agency for promoting, enabling, authorizing and

supervising space-related activities by Non-Governmental Entities (NGEs) in India.

As an enabler of the Indian space sector, IN-SPACe is mandated to foster the private sector by

closely collaborating with the industry involved in space endeavours.

The Space reforms brought in by the Union Government has attracted significant number of

start-ups as well as established players to participate in end-to-end space activities.

A few of the Indian NGE have already initiated the development of space systems.

These NGE need reliable and affordable access to space to provide commercial services

and technology demonstration. By getting in-flight experience, the NGEs eventually will be

able to increase the Technology Readiness Level (TRL) of their systems.

Hosted payload service is an innovative solution, providing a cost-effective and efficient

way for NGEs (including startups, MSME, large industries, academic institutions and

government agencies) to access space. These services allow multiple users to share a

single platform by integrating different payloads into one spacecraft.

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