Indian Space Policy 2023-Key Highlights

Sakshi Education

The Government of India's vision for space is to use it as a tool to enhance socio-economic development and security, protect the environment and lives and promote peaceful exploration of outer space. The Government aims to achieve this by promoting a flourishing commercial presence in space by using it to drive technology development and international relations. It also seeks to create an ecosystem for effective implementation of space applications.
To achieve this vision, the government is pursuing a holistic approach by promoting private sector participation in the entire value chain of the space economy. The aim is to encourage advanced Research & Development in the space sector and provide public goods and services using space technology for national priorities.
The Government will create a stable and predictable regulatory framework to provide a level playing field to Non-Government Entities through IN-SPACe (Indian National Space Promotion & Authorisation Centre).
They will also promote space-related education and innovation, including support to space-sector start-ups. With it, scientific temperament in the society can also be nurtured and awareness of space activities will also increase.
The policy discusses the establishment of IN-SPACe, an autonomous Government organization that will promote, guide, and authorize space activities in the country.
IN-SPACe will act as a single-window agency for authorizing space activities, promote industry clusters, and work with academia to widen the space ecosystem.
The report also discusses the role of Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), the National Space Agency, in focusing on Research and Development of new space technologies and applications, as well as expanding human understanding of outer space. ISRO will carry out applied research, share technologies and products and enable open data access from remote sensing satellites.