New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday congratulated IN-SPACe and ISRO for successfully launching two payloads of Indian Startups in Space by PSLV C53 mission. In its second successful commercial mission in a week, ISRO launched three foreign satellites in precise orbit from the spaceport in Sriharikota on Thursday on board PSLV C53.
PM Modi expressed confidence that many more Indian companies will reach space in the near future. “Congratulations @INSPACeIND and @isro for enabling this venture. Confident that many more Indian companies will reach Space in near future,” he said in a tweet.
The PSLV Orbital Experimental Module (POEM) carried six payloads including two from Indian space start-ups namely Digantara and Dhruva Space, enabled though IN-SPACe and NewSpace India Limited (NSIL). “The PSLV C53 mission has achieved a new milestone by launching two payloads of Indian Start-ups in Space,” Modi said.
Last month, the Prime Minister inaugurated the headquarters of the Indian National Space Promotion and Authorization Centre (IN-SPACe) at Bhopal and Ahmedabad. “Space-tech is about to become the basis of a major revolution in the 21st century. Space-tech is now going to become a technology not only of distant space, but of our personal space,” the Prime Minister had said.
The establishment of IN-SPACe was announced in June 2020. It is an autonomous and single window nodal agency in the Department of Space for the promotion, encouragement and regulation of space activities of both government and private entities. It also facilitates the usage of ISRO facilities by private entities.
