Indian and French Space Firms Sign Paris Summit Agreements

Key facts

• The first edition of the International Space Summit in Paris, held on September 10, 2026, produced 51 announcements worth about Euro 20 billion, with PM Narendra Modi scheduled to address the summit later that Thursday.
• French launch-services provider RIDE! signed an agreement to launch two new satellites on behalf of TakeMeToSpace (India), India's first designer of orbital data centres, following a European atmospheric re-entry capsule's integration, launch and return aboard the Indian PSLV launcher.
• Safran Space France signed contracts worth more than Euro 5 million with India's Dhruva Space to supply communication systems, inertial navigation units, optical payloads and ground stations for India's SBS-III space-surveillance constellation, which envisages deploying 52 satellites between 2027 and 2030.
• Safran contributed to the Chandrayaan-III lunar mission, and U-Space France signed a commercial cooperation agreement with India's AXISCADES to explore the Indian microsatellite market under the 'Make in India' policy.