Athera

Chennai, July 23, India may be sending spacecraft to orbit the Moon and Mars, and plans to send one to study the Sun and Venus, and finally, humans to space in the last four decades of this century, but its presence in the global space sector market is a mere two-three per cent. The advantage, though, is that the principal player, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), has established itself as an end-to-end operator. India has to go a long way to catch up with other major spacefaring nations in terms of rocket and satellite capabilities. That process has begun…