- Sunday, May 04, 2025
By: Shubham Ghosh
MORE than 60 firms have registered with the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) ever since prime minister Narendra Modi “unlocked” the country’s space sector, India’s minister of state for science and technology Jitendra Singh said recently.
While some of the start-up concepts are related to nanosatellites, launch vehicles, ground systems, research, etc., “quite a few” are involved in projects related to space debris control, Wion reported.
On Monday (11), Singh officially launched the ISRO System for Safe & Sustainable Operation (IS4OM) at the ISRO Control Centre in Bengaluru in the southern state of Karnataka where the space agency is headquartered.
Modi recently said at the inauguration of IN-SPACe headquarters in Ahmedabad in the western state of Gujarat, “When the strength of government space institutions and the zeal of India’s private sector meet, not even the sky will be the limit.”
Singh reiterated the department of space’s ability will be enhanced in order to safeguard India’s space interests by building all-round capabilities in space transportation, debris control, infrastructure and applications, Wion added.
According to Singh, the IS4OM service will help India execute its SSA (Space Situational Awareness) plans by giving users detailed and timely information on the space environment. The multi-domain awareness platform will provide timely, precise, and actionable information about on-orbit collisions, fragmentation, atmospheric re-entry risk, and space weather forecast, among others.
