India's ISRO launched 12 Canadian Customer Satellites

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has launched various satellites from time to time. ISRO is known to launch both indigenous as well as foreign satellites.

Till now, India has launched 431 International Customer Satellites for approximately 34 different countries. These countries are listed as:

1) Argentina

2) Algeria

3) Australia

4) Austria

5) Belgium

6) Brazil

7) Canada

8) Chile

9) Colombia

10) Czech Republic

11) Denmark

12) Finland

13) France

14) Germany

15) Indonesia

16) Israel

17) Italy

18) Japan

19) Kazakhstan

20) Latvia

21) Lithuania

22) Luxembourg

23) Malaysia

24) Netherlands

25) Norway

26) Republic of Korea

27) Singapore

28) Slovakia

29) Spain

30) Switzerland

31) Turkey

32) UAE

33) United Kingdom

34) USA

India Launched Customer Satellites for Canada

Up to now, India has launched a total of 12 customer satellites for Canada. ISRO has completed its mission successfully.

The list of Canadian Customer Satellites Launched by India is as follows:

S. No.	Satellite	Launch Date	Launch Mass	Launch Vehicle
1	CAN-X2	28 April 2008	7 kg	PSLV-C9
2	NLS-5	28 April 2008	16 kg	PSLV-C9
3	SAPPHIRE	25 February 2013	148 kg	PSLV-C20
4	NEOSSAT	25 February 2013	74 kg	PSLV-C20
5	NLS7.1(CAN-X4)	30 June 2014	15 kg	PSLV-C23
6	NLS7.2(CAN-X5)	30 June 2014	15 kg	PSLV-C23
7	NLS-14 (Ev9)	28 September 2015	14 kg	PSLV-C30
8	M3MSat	22 June 2016	85 kg	PSLV-XL C34
9	GHGSat-D	22 June 2016	25.5 kg	PSLV-XL C34
10	NLS-19	26 September 2016	8 kg	PSLV-G C35
11	Telesat Phase-1 LEO	12 January 2018	168 kg	PSLV-C40
12	Kepler (CASE)	29 November 2018	15 kg	PSLV-C43

1) CAN-X2:

CAN-X2 is a part of the CAN-X program. CAN-X stands for Canadian Advanced Nanospace eXperiment Program.

The CAN-X program was launched to involve students in spaceflight development.

CAN-X2 is a nanosatellite whose mission is to check out the technologies to be used in CAN-X4 and CAN-X5.

This satellite will also help researchers with different experiments such as GPS radio occultation, network communications etc.

2) NLS-5:

NLS is a Nanosatellite Launch System. It has a series of satellite launch missions. It provides low-cost launching services.

Its series comes as NLS 1, NLS 4, NLS 5, NLS 6, NLS 8.

3) SAPPHIRE:

Sapphire is a space surveillance satellite. It is a spacecraft to observe space debris. Space debris means to monitoring space elements such as space pollution, the parts of failed missions in space or the dead satellites that are no longer working.

4) NEOSSAT:

NEOSSAT stands for Near Earth Object Surveillance Satellite. It is a microsatellite used to monitor asteroids near the earth.

Some asteroids are difficult to detect from the surface of the earth due to their position, so NEOSSAT is used for detecting such asteroids.

5) NLS7.1(CAN-X4) and NLS7.2(CAN-X5):

CAN-X as already discussed is a nanosatellite program and NLS is a Nanosatellite Launch System.

Both of these satellites were launched together and afterwards separated in orbit. They were launched to establish autonomous flights.

6) NLS-14 (Ev9):

NLS-14 is a series of NLS. It was made by Space Flight Laboratory (University of Toronto Institute for Advanced Studies), Canada. It is a next generation Nanosatellite used to monitor maritime using the Automatic Identification System (AIS).

7) M3MSat:

M3MSat stands for Maritime Monitoring and Messaging Microsatellite. It is designed to detect the digital signals, read them, locate them, help the marine transport for better management.

It will help to identify the traffic in Canadian waters, tell them the vessel's speed and direction. It will allow us to move ahead legally and safely in Canadian marines.

8) GHGSat-D:

GHGSat-D is a Greenhouse Gas Satellite - Demonstrator. As the name suggests, it is used to monitor the air quality, release of gases from industrial sites etc.