{"id":1011449,"date":"2026-06-02T08:28:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T02:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1011449"},"modified":"2026-06-02T08:30:41","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T03:00:41","slug":"space-sector-to-become-key-component-of-indias-overall-economy-jitendra-singh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/02\/space-sector-to-become-key-component-of-indias-overall-economy-jitendra-singh\/","title":{"rendered":"Space sector to become key component of India&#8217;s overall economy: Jitendra Singh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The space sector is likely to become a crucial enabler of India&#8217;s overall economy, potentially reaching between $40 billion and $45 billion over the next 10 years, a senior minister said. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the last five years, our space economy which was just dismal, is now about $8 billion to $9 billion. This pace is so fast that in the next 10 years, we hope to grow fivefold, or even more, to $40 billion-$45 billion. So, the space economy will become a very important component of India&#8217;s overall economic growth,&#8221; Jitendra Singh, minister of state for the department of space and atomic energy, and the Prime Minister&#8217;s Office, told ETSatcom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The space sector is likely to become a crucial enabler of India&#8217;s overall economy, potentially reaching between $40 billion and $45 billion over the next 10 years, a senior minister said. &#8220;In the last five years, our space economy which was just dismal, is now about $8 billion to $9 billion. This pace is so fast that in the next 10 years, we hope to grow fivefold, or even more, to $40 billion-$45 billion. So, the space economy will become a very important component of India&#8217;s overall economic growth,&#8221; Jitendra Singh, minister of state for the department of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1011449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1011449"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1011476,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011449\/revisions\/1011476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1011449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1011449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1011449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}