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Indians are thriving in Space-Tech sector internationally as well as domestically. Recently, The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has named Bhavya Lal as acting chief of staff for the agency. As the senior White House appointee at NASA, Lal has served as a member of the Biden Presidential Transition Agency Review Team for the agency and oversaw the agency’s transition under the Joe Biden-led administration.
NASA said that Lal brings “extensive experience” in engineering and space technology, serving as a member of the research staff at the Institute for Defence Analyses Science and Technology Policy Institute (STPI) from 2005 to 2020. At STPI, she led the analysis of space technology, strategy, and policy for the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and National Space Council, as well as federal space-oriented organisations, including NASA, the Department of Defence, and the intelligence community.
Isro chairman K Sivan has called the upcoming PSLV launch, dedicated to private satellites, “as part of space reforms", which are aimed at increasing participation of private companies in the space sector.
NEW DELHI: A mega satellite that took eight years to be developed by Brazil has been successfully transported via a cargo flight from Sao Jose dos Campos to Chennai.
Amazonia-1, which will help monitor the ecosystem of the Amazon rainforest, the world’s largest tropical rainforest, will be launched into space in February next year from the Sriharikota launch centre and will become part of Indian Space Research Organisation’s first satellite launch of 2021. Isro’s PSLV-C51 will not only launch Amazonia-1 satellite but also three private satellites built by Indian startups as secondary payloads.
Highlighting the significance of the upcoming first full commercial launch of 2021 involving satellites of desi startups, Isro chairman K Sivan told
ISRO gears up to launch satellites built by private players onboard PSLV-C51
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Last Updated: Dec 17, 2020, 06:58 PM IST
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The government of India has initiated (reforms) and within eight months, the first satellite ANAND from a start-up called Pixel India, is going to be launched, he said addressing scientists from the Mission Control Centre after the successful launch of communication satellite CMS-01 on-board PSLV-C50 from the spaceport.
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The chairman said along with it two more satellites SATISH SAT , built by Space Kids India , and UNIT-SAT , built by consortium of universities, would be sent.
Sriharikota: ISRO would launch an earth observation satellite ANAND that is fully built by a start-up as part of enabling private players in space exploration, Chairman K Sivan said on Thursday. Lauding the Centre for launching reforms unlocking India s potential in the space sector, Sivan said The next mission PSLV-C51 (polar satellite launch vehic