The Indian space agency is soon opening a 100-acre Space Park in Bengaluru where private industry players would be allowed to set up facilities to make subsystems and components for satellites. The Space Park is coming up near Whitefield for the private industry. Indian Space Research Centre’s (ISRO) satellite centre director M. Annadurai said that the space park will be inaugurated in January.

With the space agency launching more satellites for various communication and earth observation services like remote sensing and navigation, the park will enable the industry to manufacture and supply their subsystems and vital components faster for spacecraft assembled at its satellite centre in the tech hub.

The satellite centre also plans to allow the private industry to make satellites end-to-end, including integration and testing for launching them from its spaceport at Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh, about 80 km northeast of Chennai.

The space agency is already planning the Aditya satellite project which involves launching a satellite to study solar coronograph, and Chandrayaan-2, the sequel to Isro’s Chandrayaan-1, which was launched in October 2008. Chandrayaan-2 will be a lunar touchdown mission unlike Chandrayaan-1, which only orbited the moon to carry out experiments before intentionally being crashed into the lunar surface.