To make India a global hub for satellite manufacturing, the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) has floated a tender inviting private firms to bid and build 30 satellites, nearly half of its requirement over the next five years.

The space agency has lined up 60 satellite launches over the next five years, including a repeat mission to the moon with a rover. “What we are trying to do in general is enabling capacity building in the country,” Isro Chairman A S Kiran Kumar told Business Standard. “We are enabling industries working for Isro and new companies ...