India’s space agency will tap startups to develop food and medicines for astronauts, better tools to access machines in a spacecraft and green engines for its maiden humanspace flight Gaganyaan-1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Amid lockdown, ISRO has identified a set of 17 technologies that to develop locally at lower costs for use in its Gaganyaan missions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
ISRO has opened up its facilities to companies like Larson & Toubro and HAL to build its polar satellite launch vehicle (PSLV).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The startups will develop food and medicines for astronauts, better tools to access machines in a spacecraft, green engines, life support systems including a spacesuit, anti-radiation and thermal protection technologies for spacecraft which will bring the astronauts back to earth safely, and inflatable habitats that are required for the mission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
ISRO will share its intellectual property for the technologies, except for those that are very strategic, to any private entity that develops them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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