Opportunities And Challenges For PSLV

NEW DELHI: On ‘The Gist’, Professor Chaitanya Giri, Editor of our sister platform, Interstellar.news and Associate Professor, Flame University, in conversation with StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P. Revi. Professor Giri discusses the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) successfully launching the PSLV-C56 carrying Singapore’s DS-SAR and six other satellites, which countries India is looking at for satellite launches, what the competition is, how private Indian players are placed for satellite launches, India building other countries’ satellites, China’s space programme, how stage 4 of the PSLV has been brought back into a lower orbit to reduce space debris, Australia’s stance on what it says is earlier ISRO PSLV stage 3 debris washing up on its shores ‘including considering obligations under the United Nations space treaties’, and ISRO’s plans for four more missions in 2023, including another PSLV mission in August or early September, the Gaganyaan test vehicle, a third development mission of the Small Satellite Launch Vehicle and the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle mission for launching INSAT-3DS.

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