Isro Chairman K Sivan gets one-year extension till January 2022
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Last Updated: Dec 30, 2020, 09:58 PM IST
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K Sivan has led Isro’s efforts to allow private firms and startups to build rockets and satellites and operate them for customers.
K Sivan, chairman of Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro).
The government has extended by a year the tenure of K Sivan as chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro), a move that’ll ensure continuity in opening up the space sector to private players and startups.
The appointments committee of the union cabinet approved the extension to January 2022, according to a note released on Wednesday.
Ushering more space sector reform is the priority for 2021: Sivan
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Venkatachari Jagannathan ( IANS) |
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Thu, Dec 31 2020 16:12 IST |
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K. Sivan. (File Photo: IANS). Image Source: IANS News
Chennai, Dec 31 : The priority for the year 2021 will be to usher in increased space sector reforms by putting in place a permanent Indian National Space Promotion and Authorisation Centre (IN-SPACe) and other sectoral policies, said K.Sivan, Secretary, Department of Space (DoS).
Sivan is also the Chairman of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and the Space Commission.
He said an interim IN-SPACe, which was set up, has received 28 applications from the private sector companies small and big startups, and academic institutions for various space related activities.
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The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will start the new year with the launch of several commercial satellites, including Brazil’s Amazonia and three Indian satellites. “In the end of February or early March 2021, we will be sending our rocket Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle-C51 (PSLV-C51). The primary payload will be the Brazilian satellite called Amazonia, an earth observation satellite,” ISRO Chairman K. Sivan told Indian news agency
IANS.
“The PSLV-C51 mission will be a very special mission not only for ISRO but also for India as the rocket will be carrying the Earth Observation satellite Anand made by an Indian startup called Pixxel (Incorporated as Syzygy Space Technologies Pvt Ltd),” Sivan said.