{"id":1038960,"date":"2026-09-28T07:48:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T02:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1038960"},"modified":"2026-09-28T07:52:32","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T02:22:32","slug":"orbital-shift-indias-space-sector-undergoing-biggest-transformation-pvt-firms-handle-rockets-isro-focus-on-more-ambitious-missions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/28\/orbital-shift-indias-space-sector-undergoing-biggest-transformation-pvt-firms-handle-rockets-isro-focus-on-more-ambitious-missions\/","title":{"rendered":"Orbital Shift: India&#8217;s space sector undergoing biggest transformation; pvt firms handle rockets, ISRO focus on more ambitious missions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Early this month, nine employee bodies of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) wrote a letter to chairman V Narayanan, who is also secretary of the Department of Space, on the future of the agency. The gist of their concern: Will the entry of the private sector diminish one of India\u2019s crown jewels? Will ISRO, they asked, be reduced to a \u201cresidual R&amp;D boutique while the realisation of the nation\u2019s launch vehicles and the operation of its launch infrastructure pass out of public hands?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Early this month, nine employee bodies of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) wrote a letter to chairman V Narayanan, who is also secretary of the Department of Space, on the future of the agency. The gist of their concern: Will the entry of the private sector diminish one of India\u2019s crown jewels? Will ISRO, they asked, be reduced to a \u201cresidual R&amp;D boutique while the realisation of the nation\u2019s launch vehicles and the operation of its launch infrastructure pass out of public hands?\u201d<\/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-1038960","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\/1038960","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=1038960"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1038974,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038960\/revisions\/1038974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1038960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1038960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1038960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}