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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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From the humble beginnings of the sounding rocket programme at the Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station (TERLS) in the early sixties the Indian space programme has come a long way to realise independent capabilities in space, launch and ground segment to provide various civilian applications and services to the country. In the past decade, the activities of the Indian Space Research Organisation have witnessed a substantial rise which reflects on the number of missions as well as the budget of the space agency. The present work explores the diversification of the Indian space programme in the past decade with a detailed study on the capabilities and technologies realised with the sustained support of the Government of India into the space programme. Perspectives on the implications (for diplomacy, security and private industry) of the success achieved in the space programme alongside the challenges that may be faced in policy with the rising expectation for various services by different stakeholders within the country have been discussed.
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149796
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India is a long-term investor in building up indigenous space infrastructure and facilities to develop rockets, satellites, and ground systems. However, the space sector is mainly government driven, with private industry participation limited to contributing to the missions executed by the Indian Space Research Organization. With the emergence of the New Space sector, there is a growing private space industry in India that needs to be supported by establishing legal aspects of space activities for private industry activities. This is important at both the international and national level, with the former needing consideration under the purview of the international treaty obligations of India and the latter for the development of the private industry ecosystem. In the present work, we explore some of the fundamental aspects of policies that need to be addressed in the process of forming national space legislation by the government of India. Recommendations in establishing a supportive ecosystem to encourage private space industry activity on a number of important issues are discussed herein.
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Capabilities in space technology are turning into a corner stone of emergence of developing countries such as India and China. In a string of agreements for cooperation in outer space, India has developed several cooperation mechanisms with international partners to harness the benefits of space technology for mutual benefits. India has recently signed a multitude of cooperative agreements in outer space and these instruments of cooperation have advanced the space based capabilities and have mutually benefitted the partners. In one such recent engagement, India has signed a bilateral cooperation Memorandum of Understanding with Brazil in the implementation of an arrangement establishing cooperation in the augmentation of a Brazilian Earth station for receiving and processing the data from Indian Remote Sensing satellite. The agreement has been based on the interest of Brazil to receive the Resourcesat-2 data for natural resources management, but not limited to it. In the backdrop of the agreement between India and Brazil, the present work presents an analysis of the state of capacities for these countries and an overview of policy implications for India. In a foreign policy perspective, the Indo-Brazil agreement has been timed at a stage when the Sino-Brazil cooperation is faced with a challenge of recent failure and is set to provide India a push into a better South–South cooperation. The agreement has provided India an added location to downlink its satellite data and may well lay a foundation for future cooperation with other Latin American States and for further global strengthening of ties in forums such as the IBSA.
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149797
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Over the past five decades, India has progressed to create one of the largest national space programs in the world, delivering space-based technology to solve the problems of man and society. The present work provides an overview of current trends regarding industry participation in the national space program of India. While insight into industry participation and upstream activity is provided in the space transportation and development of satellite systems, commercial aspects of satellite communication services, use of geospatial data, and navigation and timing services are addressed as a part of the downstream applications. Specific recommendations to expand the footprint of the participation of Indian industry in the utilization of space technology nationally with possible expansion internationally are provided herein for space program managers and policymakers for both the upstream and downstream activities.
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