Prof George Joseph has been honored with the following awards during till date :-
- TIFR Alumni Association (TAA) Excellence Awards (2009)
- Outstanding Life Time Contribution in Ocean Science and Technology, MOES (2009)
- Life Time Achievement Award, Geospatial Technologies (2008)
- Outstanding Achievement Award, ISRO (2008)
- Aryabhatta Award, Astronautical Society Of India (2007)
- Melpadom Attumalil Georgekutty Merit Award, Mar Thoma Church (2006)
- Padma Bhushan by Government of India (1999)
- Bhaskara Award : Lifetime Contribution Awarded Instituted by Indian Society of Remote Sensing for outstanding (1997)
- Shri Om Prakash Bhasin Foundation Award for Science and Technology in the discipline of Space and Aerospace (1987)
- SICO – National Academy of Sciences Award for Instrumentation (1986)