{"id":55398,"date":"2021-10-12T05:36:53","date_gmt":"2021-10-12T05:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=55398"},"modified":"2022-09-12T13:14:39","modified_gmt":"2022-09-12T07:44:39","slug":"pm-narendra-modi-launches-indian-space-association-ispa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/pm-narendra-modi-launches-indian-space-association-ispa\/","title":{"rendered":"PM Narendra Modi launches Indian Space Association (ISpA)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the&nbsp;<strong>Indian Space Association (ISpA)<\/strong>&nbsp;on October 11, 2021, via videoconferencing. At the virtual launch event, PM Modi said that the government can no longer act as a handler for the Space sector, but rather has to work as an enabler. He said that the government\u2019s policies will help ensure innovation in the private space sector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ISpA is a private industry body that will act as a&nbsp;<strong>premier industry body for space and satellite companies<\/strong>&nbsp;in the country. ISpA will be represented by homegrown and global corporations with advanced capabilities in space and satellite technologies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\" type=\"1\"><li><strong>First Chairman&nbsp;\u2013<\/strong>&nbsp;Jayant Patil, L&amp;T-NxT Senior Executive Vice President for Defence<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\" type=\"1\" start=\"2\"><li><strong>Vice-President<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013 Rahul Vatts, Bharti Airtel\u2019s chief regulatory officer<\/li><li><strong>Director-General<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013 Lt Gen. A.K. Bhatt (Retd.)<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>Its founding members include Bharti Airtel, Larsen &amp; Toubro, Nelco (Tata Group), OneWeb, Mapmyindia, Walchandnagar Industries, and Ananth Technology Limited. Other core members include Godrej, Hughes India, Azista-BST Aerospace Private Limited, BEL, Centum Electronics, and Maxar India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the&nbsp;Indian Space Association (ISpA)&nbsp;on October 11, 2021, via videoconferencing. At the virtual launch event, PM Modi said that the government can no longer act as a handler for the Space sector, but rather has to work as an enabler. He said that the government\u2019s policies will help ensure innovation in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":894,"featured_media":55399,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1918],"tags":[2029,1732,868],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-55398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-october-2021","tag-indian-space-association","tag-prime-minister-narendra-modi","tag-space-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/894"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55398"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115359,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55398\/revisions\/115359"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55398"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=55398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}