List of foreign satellites launched by India

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This is a list of all the foreign satellites launched by India. India has launched 434 satellites for 36 countries as of 24 December, 2025.[1] As of 2019, ISRO, India's government space agency, is the only launch-capable agency in India, and launches all research and commercial projects.

Commercial launches for foreign nations are negotiated through NSIL (formerly through Antrix), the ISRO's commercial arm. Between 2013 and 2015, India launched 28 foreign satellites for nine countries, earning revenue of US$101 million.[2]

As of October 2022, the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle and LVM3 are the launch vehicles utilized for international commercial launches. In addition, the Small Satellite Launch Vehicle is currently in development for international commercial launches of small satellites. The vehicle made its first successful flight on 10 February 2023.[3]

On 15 February 2017, ISRO launched 104 satellites on single launch by a PSLV-XL. 96 of them were from the United States, while the others were from Israel, the UAE, Kazakhstan, the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany.[4] It was the largest number of satellites launched on a single flight by any space agency (with the previous record held by Russia's Dnepr launcher, which launched 37 in June 2014)[5] until 24 January 2021, when SpaceX launched the Transporter-1 mission on a Falcon 9 rocket carrying 143 satellites into orbit.[6]

No.SatelliteCountryLaunch dateLaunch massLaunch vehicleRemarks
1DLR-Tubsat  Germany26 May 199945 kgPSLV-C2ISRO's 1st commercial launch with foreign satellites as payload. India's Oceansat-1 was also launched. This was PSLV's 3rd launch overall.
2Kitsat-3 Republic of Korea110 kg

2000s

No.SatelliteCountryLaunch dateLaunch massLaunch vehicleRemarks
3BIRD Germany22 October 200192 kgPSLV-C3ISRO's 2nd commercial launch.
4PROBA Belgium94 kg
5Lapan-TUBsat Indonesia10 January 200756 kgPSLV-C7
6Pehuensat-1 Argentina6 kg
7AGILE Italy23 April 2007352 kgPSLV-C8PSLV's 11th flight.
8TecSAR Israel21 January 2008295 kgPSLV-C10PSLV's 12th launch.
9CAN-X2 Canada28 April 20083.5 kg PSLV-C9ISRO launched 10 satellites, of which 8 were foreign.[7]
10NLS-56.5 kg
11Delfi-C3 Netherlands2.2 kg
12AAUSAT-II Denmark0.75 kg
13COMPASS-1 Germany1 kg
14Rubin-88 kg
15CUTE-1.7  Japan3 kg
16SEEDS-21 kg
17UWE-2  Germany23 September 20091 kg PSLV-C14ISRO launched 7 satellites, of which 6 were foreign.[8]
18BeeSat-11 kg
19RUBIN-9.1 Germany
 Luxembourg*		8 kg
20RUBIN-9.28 kg
21ITUpSAT1  Turkey1 kg
22SwissCube-1  Switzerland1 kg

2010s

2020s

Satellites launched from India by country

Data as of Dec 2025, ' * ' indicates inclusion of satellites developed in international collaboration by particular country
No. Country Total Number of Satellites
1  United States 233
2  United Kingdom 86
3  Singapore 20
4  Germany 13*
5  Canada 12
6  Luxembourg 7*
7  Republic of Korea 6
8  Israel 5*
9  Italy 5
10  Japan 5
11  Algeria 4
12  France 4
13  Lithuania 4
14  Switzerland 4
15  Netherlands 3
16  Austria 3
17  Finland 3
18  Indonesia 3
19  Belgium 2*
20  Denmark 2
21  Spain 2
22  Argentina 1
23  Australia 1
24  Brazil 1
25  Chile 1
26  Colombia 1
27  Czech Republic 1
28  China 1
29  Kazakhstan 1
30  Latvia 1
31  Malaysia 1
32  Mexico 1*
33  Norway 1
34  Slovakia 1
35  Turkey 1
36  United Arab Emirates 1
European Union 1
Total 36 countries + EU 434 satellites

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