ISRO is unable to keep pace
with booming demand for
transponders from the
private broadcasting sector
From its inception in 1969,
the national space
programme has been a
source of pride and
inspiration for most Indians.
Consider the keenness with
which Indians follow every
launch, cheering as the
spacecraft hurtles into
space.
Successive chiefs of the
Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) have
emphasised the space
programme’s pro-people and
development agenda as its
raison d’être while
downplaying its commercial
aspects as a by-product of
its core function. Bracketed
with its cousins, atomic
energy and defence
research, the Department of
Space has some 100 users
for its satellite communication
applications alone.
One of these is the private/ ISRO is unable to keep pace
with booming demand for
transponders from the
private for more Beam us up, Bangalore - The Hindu: Mobile Edition
with booming demand for
transponders from the
private broadcasting sector
From its inception in 1969,
the national space
programme has been a
source of pride and
inspiration for most Indians.
Consider the keenness with
which Indians follow every
launch, cheering as the
spacecraft hurtles into
space.
Successive chiefs of the
Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) have
emphasised the space
programme’s pro-people and
development agenda as its
raison d’être while
downplaying its commercial
aspects as a by-product of
its core function. Bracketed
with its cousins, atomic
energy and defence
research, the Department of
Space has some 100 users
for its satellite communication
applications alone.
One of these is the private/ ISRO is unable to keep pace
with booming demand for
transponders from the
private for more Beam us up, Bangalore - The Hindu: Mobile Edition
