Chennai, April 27 -- 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...