{"id":24527,"date":"2025-10-27T09:47:30","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T04:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=24527"},"modified":"2025-10-30T16:24:39","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T10:54:39","slug":"space-maitri-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/space-maitri-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"Space MAITRI Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Spece MAITRI Mission:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Space MAITRI (<strong>Mission for Australia-India&#8217;s Technology, Research and Innovation<\/strong>), represents a major step forward in the <strong>strategic partnership<\/strong> between the two nations in the space domain.<\/li>\n<li>It aims to foster <strong>closer ties between commercial, institutional<\/strong>, and governmental space organizations from <strong>India and Australia.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It focuses on <strong>debris management and sustainability<\/strong>, aligning with both nations&#8217; core values and objectives in promoting responsible space operations and mitigating the growing threat of space debris.<\/li>\n<li>Under this agreement, NewSpace India Limited will launch Australia\u2019s Space Machines Company&#8217;s second <strong>Optimus spacecraft<\/strong> in <strong>2026.<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>The 450kg Optimus spacecraft, the largest Australian-designed and built spacecraft to date, will be launched on <a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/isros-sslv-d2\/\" target=\"_blank\">ISRO&#8217;s Small Satellite Launch Vehicle (SSLV)<\/a><strong>.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Key facts about NewSpace India Limited<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a <strong>commercial arm<\/strong> under <strong>Department of Space<\/strong> (DoS), Government of India.<\/li>\n<li>It was incorporated in March 2019 and was set up to take high technology space-related activities in India.<\/li>\n<li>Under the new space policy reforms announced by the Government of India in June 2020, NSIL is to undertake operational satellite missions on a \u201c<strong>demand-driven\u201d model.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>They are responsible to build, launch, own and operate the satellite and provide services to customers.<\/li>\n<li>It is headquartered <strong>in Bengaluru.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What are Small Satellite Launch Vehicles (SSLVs)?<\/h3>\n<p>SSLV is a 3-stage Launch Vehicle configured with three Solid Propulsion Stages and liquid propulsion-based Velocity Trimming Module (VTM) as a terminal stage.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.financialexpress.com\/business\/defence-australia-india-collaboration-marks-a-new-era-in-space-exploration-3535511\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Collaboration Marks a New Era in Space Exploration<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Space MAITRI Mission represents a major step forward in the strategic partnership between the two nations in the space domain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":24528,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-24527","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}