{"id":34291,"date":"2023-04-07T02:26:16","date_gmt":"2023-04-06T20:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=34291"},"modified":"2025-04-20T11:19:14","modified_gmt":"2025-04-20T05:49:14","slug":"indian-space-policy-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/indian-space-policy-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Space Policy 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>What\u2019s in today\u2019s article?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Why in News?<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>What is the Background in which the Policy Came?<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>What are the Key Highlights of the Indian Space Policy 2023?<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>What are the Key Concerns?<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>What is LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) &#8211; India?<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Why in News?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Three years after opening up the space sector to private players, the Union Cabinet on Security (chaired by the PM) approved the <strong>Indian Space Policy 2023<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The Cabinet also approved setting up of LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) at <strong>Maharashtra\u2019s Hingoli<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2><strong>What is the Background in which the Policy Came?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>A consolidated space policy has been <strong>long anticipated to clarify roles and ways of participation<\/strong> of the government space agency, start-ups and industries.<\/li>\n<li>Although the <strong>Indian National Space Promotion and Authorisation Centre<\/strong> set up in 2020 provided<strong> a single window<\/strong> for all approvals and resource sharing, these came on a <strong>case-to-case basis.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Since the space sector was opened up to private players in 2020, <strong>over 200 space start-ups have come up in the country<\/strong> and many of them are also working towards providing launch services.<\/li>\n<li>Private company <strong>Skyroot Aerospace<\/strong> has already conducted a sub-orbital flight with its solid fuel based single-stage <strong>Vikram S rocket<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media\">\n<div data-oembed-url=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6lByPL-45ls\">\n<div><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6lByPL-45ls\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2><strong>What are the Key Highlights of the Indian Space Policy 2023?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It lays down the <strong>roles and responsibilities of organisations<\/strong> such as Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), NewSpace India Limited (NSIL) and private sector entities.<\/li>\n<li>It aims <strong>to enhance the role of the Department of Space<\/strong>, boost activities of ISRO missions and give a larger participation of <strong>research, academia, startups and industry<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It will pave the way forward with much required clarity in <strong>space reforms and augment private industry participation<\/strong> to <strong>drive the space economy<\/strong> opportunity for the country.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>What are the Key Concerns?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Although a move in the right direction,<strong> the policy is still short of a Bill that can provide a legal framework<\/strong> for commercial use of space.<\/li>\n<li>Such a legal framework <strong>should create mechanisms for insurance<\/strong> against damage in space, something that comes at an extremely high cost to private players at the moment.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>What is LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) &#8211; India?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a planned <strong>advanced gravitational-wave observatory <\/strong>(meant to detect and track cosmic gravitational waves) as part of the worldwide network, which received the Indian Government&#8217;s in-principle approval in <strong>2016<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It will be built by the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE), Department of Science and Technology (DST), <strong>Government of India<\/strong>, with a MoU with the <strong>National Science Foundation (NSF), USA<\/strong>, etc.<\/li>\n<li>LIGO-India is <strong>a multidisciplinary mega-science project<\/strong> that requires expertise from a variety of fields (laser, vacuum, optics, computer, etc.) and provides cutting edge research opportunities &#8211; giving a global role to India.<\/li>\n<li>There were <strong>only two LIGO observatories in the world<\/strong>, both of them in the US and the Indian observatory is scheduled to be completed by <strong>2030<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1) What is the Indian National Space Promotion and Authorization Center (IN-SPACe)?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>IN-SPACe is an independent nodal agency under Department of Space for allowing space activities and usage of DOS owned facilities by non-governmental private entities (NGPEs) as well as to prioritise the launch manifest.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Q2) What is Vikram-S?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Vikram-S (Sarabhai) is India\u2019s first privately-developed rocket developed by Hyderabad-based startup Skyroot Aerospace Private Limited. It is a single-stage solid fuelled, sub-orbital rocket that is lifted off in 2022 under the mission titled Prarambh.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/cabinet-gives-nod-to-indian-space-policy-2023\/article66707770.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Union Cabinet gives nod to Indian Space Policy 2023<\/u><\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/india\/cabinet-nod-indian-space-policy-2023-8543047\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>IE<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian Space Policy 2023 lays down the roles and responsibilities of organisations such as ISRO, NSIL and private sector entities<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":34292,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-34291","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-mains-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34291","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=34291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}