Chennai | A senior official of the Indian National Space Promotion and Authorization Center (IN-Space) said on Saturday that the global space sector is moving away from geo-statalites and towards a cluster of small satellites in low-Earth orbit. In his address at the ‘Space Technology: The Next Business Frontier’ conference, Professor Rajeev Jyoti, Distinguished Scientist, Director (Technical), IN-Space said that the space sector, in the next 10 years, will move from geo-satellites to a constellation of satellites. is being transferred.
The conference is organized by the Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras), the US Consulate General of Chennai and the Indian Space Association. “India and the United States are natural partners in the space sector and there are enormous opportunities for expanding bilateral and multilateral cooperation in the space sector,” said Drew Shuflatovsky, Minister of Economic, Environment, Science and Technology at the US Embassy in New Delhi.
Back in 1963, the National Aeronautical and Space Administration (NASA) and ISRO worked together to launch the first Indian sounding rocket. Shufletovsky said that since then, the two space agencies have collaborated on a number of projects, including the exploration of the Moon. On September 30, 2014, NASA and ISRO signed a partnership to collaborate on and launch NISAR. The mission is targeted to launch in early 2023.
