Despite achieving huge success in the field of Space technology, there are some major factors that pushes India to rethink on its space policy. Analyse (200 Words)
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IAS Parliament 6 years
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First anti-satellite weapon by India needs to come to terms with a number of factors that are transforming the political and economic nature of outer space.
Need for reorientation of India’s national strategy towards outer space
· Unfolding the drift towards the weaponisation of outer space. India has joined other powers in developing space assets for passive military uses of outer space — such as surveillance, targeting and military communication. It now needs to prepare for an outer space that might become an active military theatre.
· But the great powers are investing heavily in developing a wide range of capabilities to conduct space warfare. These include systems that are far more sophisticated than the one India tested. USA announced its decision to set up a space force — the sixth arm of the military after army, navy, marine corps, coast.
· To effectively secure its interests in outer space, India will need a comprehensive military space policy and the necessary investments to realise its goals.
· The challenge of the rapid expansion of commercial space and the growing role of the private sector.
· India’s national space programme has been quite successful in mobilising an advanced technology for development. The Indian Space Research Organisation has also been conscious of the need to draw industry, both public and private sector, to participate in the space.
· Delhi must promote a massive expansion of the private sector’s role in space to ensure that India gets a reasonable slice of the growing global space business.
· Space now becomes the site for expansive commercial enterprise, national space agencies are under pressure to redefine their role, providing the way for the participation of private sectors.
· The need to promote effective domestic and international regulatory frameworks for the development of space programmes and to develop commercial space laws at home that attract investment, clarify property rights, limit liability for space operators and set standards for space products and operations.
· Externally, India must prepare for the inevitable evolution of the global space regime centred around the 1967 Outer Space Treaty that insisted on peaceful uses of outer space, barred the national appropriation of celestial bodies, and declared outer space to be common province of mankind.
SARI 6 years
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IAS Parliament 6 years
Try to include Space development of other countries, space industry as a commercial enterprise, significance of outer space treaty etc. Keep Writing.
Ramakrishnan 6 years
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IAS Parliament 6 years
Good answer. Try to include few achievements of ISRO in short, significance of outer space treaty in reshaping policy. Keep Writing.
