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TopicIndia Space Programme

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India wanted a space industry. Scientists quitting ISRO is how that happens

For the first time in India's history, talented aerospace engineers have meaningful alternatives to a government career. The resignations are a sign of the same.

‘Why can’t we build a private rocket firm’—the idea behind Skyroot that culminated into Vikram-1

Pawan Chandana says he quit a secure government job to pursue his twin passions entrepreneurship and rockets, despite there being no policy for private launches.

Indian science was never apolitical, says Hyderabad panel on space and vaccine stories

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.

Aryabhata to NISAR—India’s space journey has always been political

Amid US political uncertainty and intensifying rivalry among the US, Russia and China, India must navigate space with like-minded partners.

Dr EV Chitnis: ISRO founding member who oversaw India’s 1st rocket & connected villages to satellites

Padma Bhushan Dr Eknath Vasant Chitnis, who supervised the development of India's first rocket and who laid the groundwork for INSAT dies at 100.

ISRO and NASA’s billion-dollar baby is ready to launch. NISAR will watch every inch of Earth

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.

Adani Group among three finalists in India’s small satellite launch vehicle privatisation programme

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. 

An IIT Madras team is working on manufacturing in space. It’s planning 20 yrs ahead

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.

1 yr of Chandrayaan-3: How the mission shaped India’s lunar exploration & what we know about the Moon

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.

On Camera

Srinagar’s cinemas may have gone dark. Kashmir’s love for films never did

It seemed like J&K's battered past had taken a backseat, even if it was for the four days of the international film festival.

Global funds sour on India stocks as some cut allocation to zero

Weak corporate earnings and the lack of an AI investment theme are prompting global investors to cut India exposure.

‘Society as battlefield’: NATO cites Indian military paper on cognitive warfare. What it says

In a seminal work, former military officers Lt. Gen. D.S. Hooda & Lt. Col. Pavithran Rajan put forth a framework to approach cognitive warfare, called Socio-Technical-Cognitive Battlespace.

The real BRICS story is what China, Russia want & India wishes

India, China and Russia share more contradictions than congruence. Each has a different worldview, as also a different adversary. The rude fact is that BRICS is the most irrelevant of all such groupings.