The Indian Space Promotion and Authorisation Centre (IN-SPACe) has starts authorising Indian private firms, marking the beginning of private space sector launches in India.
IN-SPACe is an autonomous, single window nodal agency form to promote, authorise, monitor, and supervise the space activities of Non-Governmental Private Entities (NGPEs) in India.
Dhruva Space, Hyderabad, and Digantara research & technologies Bengaluru, were authorise by IN-SPACe on 24th June 2022 to launch their payloads.
Dhruva Space’s Dhruva Space Satellite Orbital Deployer (DSOD 1U), a technology demonstration payload, and Digantara’s ROBust Integrating Proton Fluence Meter (ROBI), a Proton dosimeter payload, were authorise, an IN-SPACe statement said.
The payloads would fly onboard PSLV Orbital Experimental Module (POEM) of PSLV-C53 scheduled to be launch on 30th June 2022.
IN-SPACe Chairman Pawan Kumar Goenka Said :
Dhruva Space is a space technology start-up focus on building full-stack space engineering solutions, involve in building application-agnostic satellite platforms.
Digantara research and technologies is engage in development of end-to-end solutions focus on safe and sustainable space operations through its Space Situational Awareness sensor network, platform and data products.
PSLV-C53 is the 55th mission of ISRO’s schedule to be launch on 30th June 2022 at 18:00 hours IST from Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota.
According to Pawan Kumar Goenka, Digantara will launch a weather satellite which will be use for weather monitoring from space using their patent technology.
Dhruva Space, he said, will test its Satellite deployer technology which in future can be deploy for international customers.
Pawan Kumar Goenka Said :
Dhruva Space CEO, Sanjay Nekkanti the PSLV C53 mission is a key milestone in the journey of his start-up.
Sanjay Nekkanti Said :
CEO and Co-founder Digantara, Anirudha N Sharma said :
National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC), ISRO, has organise a three-day training course on ‘Bhuvan’ portal utilisation.
Bhuvan is a Geoportal platform of ISRO.
It hosts a wide-range of services spanning visualisation of satellite data, thematic maps, query and analysis, free data downloads and products, near real-time disaster services, Apps for crowdsourcing, and diverse geospatial applications.
It also supports the ministries with G-Governance applications.
ISRO statement said :