The Indian Space Promotion and Authorisation Centre (In-Space) has begun to promote space activities in the private sector.
With an intention of providing a level playing field, In-Space made news recently as it authorised two early birds to launch their payloads: Dhruva Space Pvt. Ltd. from Hyderabad and Digantara Research & Technologies Pvt. Ltd. from Bangalore are the first ones to mark this new beginning.
Dhruva Space Satellite Orbital Deployer (DSOD 1U), a technology demonstration payload, was authorised. As a space technology start-up, Dhruva Space focuses on building space engineering solutions necessary for application-agnostic satellite platforms.
For its part, Digantara Research & Technologies develops end-to-end solutions for safe and sustainable space operations through its 'Space Situational Awareness' sensor network, platform and data products. A Proton dosimeter payload, Digantara's 'Robust Integrating Proton Fluence Meter' (ROBI) was...