Since the 1970s the island of Sriharikota has served as the country's Cape Canaveral, with the national space agency launching scores of spacecraft headed as far as the moon and Mars. But in November a new tenant appeared.
Secretary general of ISpA, Lt Gen (Retd) Anil Kumar Bhatt says an early approval of the Space Activity Bill would be the next logical step in ensuring a global acceptance of the Indian space sector
The policy formally laid down the regulations of privatizing space missions in India, and also denoted clear guidelines of operations for NewSpace India Limited (Nsil) Isro’s commercial arm and Indian National Space Promotion and Authorization Centre (IN-SPACe).
The document paves way for large consumers of space technology or services such as communication, remote-sensing, data services, launch services, etc., to directly procure from any source, whether private or public