New Delhi: PM congratulated IN-SPACe, ISRO for successful launch of 2 payloads of Indian startups. Prime Minister PM Narendra Modi on Friday congratulated IN-SPACe and ISRO for successfully launching two payloads of Indian Startups in Space by PSLV C53 mission.
In a tweet Prime Minister Modi said, “The PSLV C53 mission has achieved a new milestone by launching two payloads of Indian Start-ups in Space. Congratulations @INSPACeIND and @isro for enabling this venture. Confident that many more Indian companies will reach Space in near future.”
Last month, the Prime Minister inaugurated the headquarters of the Indian National Space Promotion and Authorisation Centre (IN-SPACe) at Bopal and Ahmedabad.
“Space-tech is about to become the basis of a major revolution in the 21st century. Space-tech is now going to become a technology not only of distant space, but of our personal space,” the Prime Minister had said.
The establishment of IN-SPACe was announced in June 2020. It is an autonomous and single window nodal agency in the Department of Space for the promotion, encouragement and regulation of space activities of both government and private entities. It also facilitates the usage of ISRO facilities by private entities.
Chairman of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said, “The primary goal of these reforms is to enhance the space ecosystem in this country — create a larger space enterprise in this country, where the governmental system and the non-governmental actors to graduate to the next level where we will create an industrial space ecosystem who have an end to end capability.”
