India's Satellite Cooperation with Pacific Islands Since 2015
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TLDR
- (Opens in new window) a space cooperation agreement with Seychelles in late June 2026, it barely registered outside diplomatic circles.
- Space has become one of India’s most durable instruments of diplomacy.The template for this was set in May 2017, when India launched the South Asia Satellite(Opens in new window), a geosynchronous communications.
- By early 2024, New Delhi had signed space cooperation agreements with 61 countries and five multilateral organisations(Opens in new window).Seychelles is simply the latest addition to a list that keeps growing, each.
- India has courted the Pacific Islands(Opens in new window) since 2015 and pursued a satellite monitoring station in Fiji, in a region where several states have voiced unease about Chinese fishing fleets and port.
- If India wants this tool to do more than accumulate goodwill, it could tie it more explicitly to the region’s own priorities, such as fisheries surveillance under the 2050 Strategy for the Blue Pacific Continent(Opens.