{"id":1023220,"date":"2026-07-24T08:06:35","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T02:36:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1023220"},"modified":"2026-07-24T08:08:01","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T02:38:01","slug":"number-of-space-startups-rose-from-one-in-2014-to-over-400-in-2026-government-to-rajya-sabha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/24\/number-of-space-startups-rose-from-one-in-2014-to-over-400-in-2026-government-to-rajya-sabha\/","title":{"rendered":"Number of space startups rose from one in 2014 to over 400 in 2026: Government to Rajya Sabha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s space sector has witnessed measurable gains since June 2020, when space was opened to private players, with the number of space start-ups increasing from one in 2014 to more than 400 at present, and cumulative private investment crossing $600 million, the government informed Parliament on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>In a written reply to a question in the Rajya Sabha, Union Minister Jitendra Singh said in 2026 so far, private investment worth $187 million has been reported and 105 authorisations have been issued to non-government entities (NGEs) as on July 7.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s space sector has witnessed measurable gains since June 2020, when space was opened to private players, with the number of space start-ups increasing from one in 2014 to more than 400 at present, and cumulative private investment crossing $600 million, the government informed Parliament on Thursday. In a written reply to a question in the Rajya Sabha, Union Minister Jitendra Singh said in 2026 so far, private investment worth $187 million has been reported and 105 authorisations have been issued to non-government entities (NGEs) as on July 7.<\/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-1023220","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\/1023220","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=1023220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1023249,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023220\/revisions\/1023249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1023220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1023220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1023220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}