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This list covers most artificial satellites built in and operated by the Republic of India. India has been successfully launching satellites of various types from 1975. Apart from Indian rockets, these satellites have been launched from various vehicles, including American, Russian and European rockets sometimes as well. The organization responsible for India's space program is Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and it shoulders the bulk of the responsibility of designing, building, launching and operating these satellites.[1]
Legend
This is a list of Indian (wholly or partially owned, wholly or partially designed and/or manufactured) satellites and orbital space crafts, both operated by the Indian government (ISRO, Indian defence forces, other government agencies) or private (educational and research) entities. All satellite launches marked successful have completed at least one full orbital flight (no sub-orbital flights have been included in this list).
- Mission status/type legend
- Mission failure (due to launch vehicle failure (at launch/during transit))
- Extra-terrestrial missions
- Geosynchronous Orbit (inclination ≥ 5°)
- Geostationary Orbit (inclination < 5°)
- Crewed spacecraft
1970s
Indian space missions began in the 1970s, with Soviet assistance in launching the first two satellites.
| Payload Details | Launch Date | Launch Vehicle | Launch Site | Details | Refs (Official portal) | |||||||||||||
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| # | Name | Discipline | COSPAR ID | Launch Mass | Power | Periapsis | Apoapsis | Period | Inclination | Longitude‡ | Epoch Start | Decay Date | ||||||
| SatCat # | Dry Mass | |||||||||||||||||
| 1 | Aryabhata |
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1975-033A | 360 kg (790 lb) | 46 W [3] | 19 April 1975, 13:10:00 IST |
 Interkosmos-II |
Kapustin Yar |
Active technological experience in building and operating a satellite system. This was India's first indigenously designed and built satellite. | Archived 31 July 2017 at the Wayback Machine | ||||||||
| 07752 | – | 568 km (353 mi) | 611 km (380 mi) | 96.5 minutes | 50.7° | 19 April 1975, 01:30:00 IST | 11 February 1992 | |||||||||||
| 2 | Bhaskara Sega-I |
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1979-051A | 444 kg (979 lb) | 47 W [5] | 7 June 1979, 16:00:00 IST |
Modified SS-5 (SKean IRBM) plus Upper Stage[4] |
Kapustin Yar |
First experimental remote sensing satellite. Carried TV and microwave cameras. | |||||||||
| 11392 | – | 512 km (318 mi) | 557 km (346 mi) | 95.2 minutes | 50.7° | 7 June 1979, 01:30:00 IST | 17 February 1989 | |||||||||||
| 3 | Rohini Technology Payload |
|
Not Applicable | 35 kg (77 lb) [6] | 3 W | 10 August 1979 |  SLV-3-E1 |
Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota |
Intended for measuring in-flight performance of first experimental flight of SLV-3, the first Indian launch vehicle. Did not achieve orbit.[7] | Archived 31 July 2017 at the Wayback Machine | ||||||||
| Not Applicable | – | Not Applicable | Not Applicable | Not Applicable | Not Applicable | Not Applicable | Not Applicable | |||||||||||
† In case of discrepancy in data between sources, N2YO and NASA NSSDCA is taken as the source of truth.
‡ Orbital Longitude is applicable only for Geostationary and Geosynchronous satellites.
1980s
India had three continuous successful satellite launches from its first generation rocket SLV. ISRO had two running projects for next generation rockets based on SLV:
- ASLV to study and develop technologies to transfer satellites into geostationary orbit.
- PSLV to transfer higher payloads into polar and Sun synchronous orbits.
ISRO did not have enough funds to run both projects simultaneously. Initial setbacks complexity led ISRO to terminate ASLV in just initial flights and focus on PSLV.[8] Technologies to launch geostationary satellites arrived only in 2000s.
| Payload Details | Launch Date | Launch Vehicle | Launch Site | Details | Refs (Official portal) | |||||||||||||
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| # | Name | Discipline | COSPAR ID | Launch Mass | Power | Periapsis | Apoapsis | Period | Inclination | Longitude‡ | Epoch Start | Decay Date | ||||||
| SatCat # | Dry Mass | |||||||||||||||||
| 4 | Rohini RS-1 (Rohini-1B) |
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1980-062A | 35 kg (77 lb) | 16 W [10] | 18 July 1980, 08:01:00 IST | SLV-3-E2 |
Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota |
Used for measuring in-flight performance of second experimental launch of SLV-3. This was India's first indigenous satellite launch, making it the seventh nation to possess the capability to launch its own satellites on its own rockets. | Archived 26 August 2022 at the Wayback Machine Archived 31 July 2017 at the Wayback Machine | ||||||||
| 11899 | – | 305 km (190 mi) | 919 km (571 mi) | 96.9 minutes | 44.7° | 18 July 1980, 01:30:00 IST | 20 May 1981 | |||||||||||
| 5 | Rohini RS-D1 (Rohini-2) |
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1981-051A | 38 kg (84 lb) | 16 W [12] | 31 May 1981, 10:30:00 IST[11] | SLV-3-D1 |
Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota |
Used for conducting some remote sensing technology studies using a landmark sensor payload. Launched by the first developmental launch of SLV-3. | Archived 31 July 2017 at the Wayback Machine | ||||||||
| 12491 | – | 186 km (116 mi) | 418 km (260 mi) | 90.5 minutes | 46.3° | 31 May 1981, 01:30:00 IST | 8 June 1981 | |||||||||||
| 6 | APPLE |
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1981-057B | 670 kg (1,480 lb) | 210 W [14] | 19 June 1981, 18:02:59 IST |  Ariane-1 (V-3) |
 Centre Spatial Guyanais, Kourou |
First experimental communication satellite. Provided experience in building and operating a payload experiment three-axis stabilised communication satellite. | Archived 19 October 2021 at the Wayback Machine Archived 31 July 2017 at the Wayback Machine | ||||||||
| 12545 | – | 35,761.9 km (22,221.4 mi) [15] | 35,963 km (22,346 mi) | 1439.6 minutes | 13.6° | 97.57° E | 19 June 1981, 01:30:00 IST | |||||||||||
| 7 | Bhaskara -II |
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1981-115A | 444 kg (979 lb) | 47 W [17] | 20 November 1981, 14:08:00 IST | Modified SS-5 (SKean IRBM) plus Upper Stage |
Kapustin Yar |
Second experimental remote sensing satellite; similar to Bhaskara-1. Provided experience in building and operating a remote sensing satellite system on an end-to-end basis. | Archived 30 July 2017 at the Wayback Machine | ||||||||
| 12968 | – | 520 km (320 mi) | 542 km (337 mi) | 95.2 minutes | 50.6° | 20 November 1981, 00:30:00 IST | 30 November 1991 | |||||||||||
| 8 | INSAT-1A |
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1982-031A | 1,152.1 kg (2,540 lb)[18] | – | 10 April 1982, 12:17:00 IST |  Delta 3910 PAM-D |
Air Force Eastern Test Range, Florida |
First operational multipurpose communication and meteorology satellite. Procured from USA. Worked for only six months. | Archived 12 August 2022 at the Wayback Machine | ||||||||
| 13129 | – | 35,837.1 km (22,268.1 mi) [19] | 35,903.1 km (22,309.2 mi) | 1440 minutes | 13.6° | 40.85° E | 10 April 1982, 07:17:00 IST | |||||||||||
| 9 | Rohini RS-D2 (Rohini-3) |
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1983-033A | 41.5 kg (91 lb) [21] | 16 W [21] | 17 April 1983, 11:14:00 IST | SLV-3 |
Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota |
Identical to RS-D1. Launched by the second developmental launch of SLV-3. | |||||||||
| 14002 | – | 389 km (242 mi) | 852 km (529 mi) | 97.1 minutes | 46.6° | 17 April 1983, 00:30:00 IST | 19 April 1990 | |||||||||||
| 10 | INSAT-1B |
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1983-089B | 1,152 kg (2,540 lb) [22] | – | 1 June 1983, 13:19:00 IST | Shuttle |
Air Force Eastern Test Range, Florida |
Identical to INSAT-1A. Served for more than design life of seven years. | Archived 28 September 2022 at the Wayback Machine | ||||||||
| 14318 | – | 35,776.2 km (22,230.3 mi) [23] | 35,869.6 km (22,288.3 mi) | 1437.6 minutes | 14.8° | 89.71° E | 31 May 1983, 09:19:00 IST | |||||||||||
| 11 | SROSS-1 |
|
Not Applicable | 150 kg (330 lb) [24] | 90 W | 24 March 1987 | ASLV-D1 |
Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota |
Carried payload for launch vehicle performance monitoring and for gamma ray astronomy. Did not achieve orbit. | |||||||||
| Not Applicable | – | Not Applicable | Not Applicable | Not Applicable | Not Applicable | Not Applicable | Not Applicable | |||||||||||
| 12 | IRS-1A |
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1988-021A | 975 kg (2,150 lb) [26] | 600 W [26] | 17 March 1988, 12:42:00 IST | Vostok |
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan |
Earth observation satellite. First operational remote sensing satellite. | |||||||||
| 18960 | – | 902.3 km (560.7 mi) [27] | 922.1 km (573.0 mi) | 103.1 minutes | 99.3° | 17 March 1988, 00:30:00 IST | ||||||||||||
| 13 | SROSS-2 |
|
Not Applicable | 150 kg (330 lb) [28] | 90 W[28] | 13 July 1988 | ASLV-D2 |
Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota |
Carried remote sensing payload of German space agency in addition to Gamma Ray astronomy payload. Did not achieve orbit. | |||||||||
| Not Applicable | – | Not Applicable | Not Applicable | Not Applicable | Not Applicable | Not Applicable | Not Applicable | |||||||||||
| 14 | INSAT-1C |
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1988-063A | 1,152 kg (2,540 lb) | – | 22 July 1988, 04:42:00 IST | Ariane-3 |
Centre Spatial Guyanais, Kourou |
Same as INSAT-1A. Served for only one-and-a-half years. | |||||||||
| 19330 | – | 35,768.8 km (22,225.7 mi) [30] | 35,821.5 km (22,258.4 mi) | 1436.2 minutes | 14.9° | 95.03° E [31] | 22 July 1988, 00:42:00 IST | |||||||||||
† In case of discrepancy in data between sources, N2YO and NASA NSSDCA is taken as the source of truth.
‡ Orbital Longitude is applicable only for Geostationary and Geosynchronous satellites.
1990s
From this decade on, Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) arrived that allowed India to become self-reliant in launching most of its remote sensing satellites. However, for heavy geostationary systems, India continued to remain dependent on Europe entirely. Capability to launch geostationary satellites will arrive in next decade.
| Payload Details | Launch Date | Launch Vehicle | Launch Site | Details | Refs (Official portal) | |||||||||||||
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| # | Name | Discipline | COSPAR ID | Launch Mass | Power | Periapsis | Apoapsis | Semi-Major Axis | Period | Inclination | Longitude‡ | Eccentricity | Epoch Start | Decay Date | ||||
| SatCat # | Dry Mass | |||||||||||||||||
| 15 | INSAT-1D |
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1990-051A | 1,190 kg (2,620 lb) [33] | 1000 W [33] | 12 June 1990, 11:22:00 IST | Delta 4925 |
Air Force Eastern Test Range, Florida |
Identical to INSAT-1A. Still in service. A third stage motor from its launch landed in Australia in 2008.[34] | Archived 12 August 2022 at the Wayback Machine | ||||||||
| 20643 | 550 kg (1,210 lb) | 35,729.2 km (22,201.1 mi) [35] | 35,974 km (22,353 mi) | 42,160 km (26,200 mi) | 1435.9 minutes | 14.3° | 71.66° E | 0.00245 | 12 June 1990, 01:30:00 IST | – | ||||||||
| 16 | IRS-1B | Zdroj:https://en.wikipedia.org?pojem=List_of_Indian_satellites|||||||||||||||||