India’s space and vaccine trajectories moved with political currents rather than above them, argued a panel at the History Literature Festival in Hyderabad on Sunday.
NISAR satellite, a groundbreaking NASA-ISRO collaboration, launches July 30 from Sriharikota. This Earth observation mission will scan the planet every 12 days using advanced SAR technology.
About 20 companies initially expressed interest in bidding for the SSLV, the first privatisation of its kind under PM Narendra Modi’s policy drive to open up India’s space industry.
Using IIT Madras’ Institute of Eminence funds and access to microgravity, 7 departments collaborated in 2021 to open India’s first research centre dedicated solely to Space 2.0 research.
ISRO has continued its strides towards future lunar missions and expanded its space exploration programme as the Modi government and private players pump in investments.
A Bollywood movie, students with big dreams, a supportive pradhan, and ISRO's leap of faith gave UP's Hasudi Ausanpur village India's first primary school with its own space lab. Now, village elders are learning through science.
With a new liberalised FDI regime, India’s space sector will witness more investments and technology transfers. But how well can an executive policy function without a legal framework?
The Artemis Accords can be seen as an early American effort to shape the legal, technological, and policy frameworks governing access to, and use of, lunar resources.
We now live in a world order that will keep shifting. India must use this window. This also means we remain disciplined enough not to be knee-jerked into reacting to what Pakistan sees as its moment in the sun.
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