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India has been an early adopter of space technology via sustained investments in developing indigenous infrastructure in space, launch and ground systems for a national mission of utilising societal applications from space assets. The continued support from the Government of India in establishment of an ecosystem for the development of space industry for over four decades has created several hundred industries catering to the national space programme. The present work provides a systematic overview of the value chain of the space ecosystem in India with pointing to some inherent challenges in the current value chain that needs to be addressed to explore the full potential of commercial exploitation, while respecting and fulfilling the needs of the civil society at large. Despite having a successful space program that resulted into many spin-offs, India is yet to have a globally reputed private commercial space company, or at least an internationally competitive industry landscape. An effort has been made to identify specific issues of space policy for the further development of the private space industry to establish a stronger presence of the Indian space industry in the international market.
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127552
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On May 24, 2012 SpaceX's Dragon capsule was launched and in doing so became the first commercially built vehicle to berth with and carry cargo to the International Space Station (ISS). It successfully completed its mission and returned to the Pacific Ocean on May 31, 2012.1 The docking of Dragon represented a historic moment where a commercial enterprise managed to achieve that which had previously only been accomplished by governments. "In the history of spaceflight - only four entities have launched a space capsule into orbit and successfully brought it back to Earth: the United States, Russia, China, and SpaceX".2 While this is a monumental accomplishment for private industry, we cannot ignore the value of public-private partnerships and the role that government played in enabling this incredible achievement.
In this paper I will examine how public-private partnerships are enabling the development of the commercial space industry, viewed through the lens of the Rethinking Business Institutional Hybrid Framework put forward by University of Oxford professors Marc Ventresca and Alex Nichols in their Rethinking Business MBA course. I intend to demonstrate that the NASA versus Commercial Space argument is a false dichotomy and that only by working together can both sectors continue to push the boundaries of space travel and exploration. I plan to do this by first discussing how the NASA-SpaceX partnership came about and the reasoning behind it. I will then explore what a public-private partnership (PPP) is, as compared to other government privatization schemes, and explain why Space Act Agreements are significantly different from anything done previously. I will then analyze the impact of these agreements and outline their benefits in order to demonstrate the value they create, especially in areas of mutual value creation and economic development.
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Outer space is a congested strategic domain. The issue of space debris mitigation is one of the key issues of safe space traffic. However, active debris removal (ADR) systems may raise concerns about their dual-use capabilities. In this article, the authors have analyzed the ADR systems focusing on their potential as space weapons. The article concludes that ADR systems can be utilized for harmful purposes, although with limited impact. This limited potential of ADR systems to become antisatellite weapons allow for the development of such systems keeping in place basic confidence and trust building measures. The authors believe the further commercialization of space sector could enhance the space debris mitigation efforts.
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