{"id":933837,"date":"2025-05-26T08:30:51","date_gmt":"2025-05-26T03:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=933837"},"modified":"2025-05-26T08:30:51","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T03:00:51","slug":"space-tech-companies-get-an-opening-as-india-seeks-more-eyes-in-the-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/05\/26\/space-tech-companies-get-an-opening-as-india-seeks-more-eyes-in-the-sky\/","title":{"rendered":"Space-tech companies get an opening as India seeks more eyes in the sky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After Operation Sindoor, there is a growing push to enhance India&#8217;s satellite-based Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) capabilities. Lt Gen AK Bhatt (Retd), Director General of the Indian Space Association (ISpA), told ET that while India currently operates around 10\u201311 defence satellites, mostly from the Cartosat and RISAT series which are one of the bests\u2014&#8221;revisit times are long,&#8221; and there is an urgent need for more satellites to ensure persistent coverage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Operation Sindoor, there is a growing push to enhance India&#8217;s satellite-based Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) capabilities. Lt Gen AK Bhatt (Retd), Director General of the Indian Space Association (ISpA), told ET that while India currently operates around 10\u201311 defence satellites, mostly from the Cartosat and RISAT series which are one of the bests\u2014&#8221;revisit times are long,&#8221; and there is an urgent need for more satellites to ensure persistent coverage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"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-933837","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\/933837","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=933837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=933837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=933837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=933837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}