ISRO is famous all over the world for completing space missions at low cost and now with the help of ISRO and private companies, India can become a super power of space. Started with 8 private companies.
- PM Modi launched Indian Space Association
- India can become a super power of space
- It has been started with 8 private companies
New Delhi: In the last few days, many big industrialists of the world have sent common people to space through their private space companies. Seeing this, the people of India must have wondered whether they too will ever be able to celebrate holidays in the same space by buying tickets. Only ISRO (Indian Space Research Organization) has the ability to do this in India, but ISRO is a government organization, whose job is to carry out those space missions of India, which are funded by the Government of India. But now India has taken a new initiative in this direction and now big private companies of India will also be able to find opportunities in space.
- PM Modi launched Indian Space Association
It is often said that whatever reforms happen in the country should be visible on the ground, but this is one such reform in India’s space policy, whose effect will not be visible on the ground but in the sky and space. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has launched the Indian Space Association. After this, now private companies of India will also be able to join the space race. ISRO is famous all over the world for completing space missions at low cost and now with the help of ISRO and private companies, India can become a super power of space. Started with 8 private companies.
- Why Indian Space Association was launched
There are four motives behind launching the Indian Space Association. First- Inspire the private sector to make new discoveries in space. Second- To give new opportunities to private companies in the space industry with the help of the government. Third- To give opportunities to people capable of taking forward India’s space industry. And fourth, to ensure that space is used for the good of all.
- What will these private companies do?
They will be able to make new rockets for ISRO. Will be able to develop its own satellites and use ISRO’s resources to send its rockets, space shuttles and satellites to space. It has also started through Satellite Internet. A big telecom company of India will send 648 satellites to space through one of its subsidiary companies and these satellites will be sent through ISRO’s GSLV Rocket. These satellites will be able to provide high speed internet connectivity to far flung areas including cities of India. These are the areas where it is not possible to lay the cable for the internet.
- Many records in the name of India in space
At present, the space industry in the whole world is worth Rs 33 lakh crore and at present India’s share in it is 2 percent. This is because, at present, all the space programs of India are under the control of ISRO. But despite this, India has many records in the name of space. Now you think what will happen if private companies come in this. ISRO had sent its Mangalyaan to the orbit of Mars for just Rs 555 crore, while the US space agency NASA did the same work for Rs 5 thousand crore. The European Union had spent 3 thousand crores for this. Japan spent Rs 1400 crore and Russia Rs 800 crore to send a spacecraft to Mars.
ISRO had completed the Chandrayaan mission in just Rs 855 crore, while the films made on space in Hollywood also cost much more than this. Rs 1300 crore was spent in making the film Guardians of the Galaxy, while another similar space film Inter-Stellar was produced for Rs 1200 crore. That is, ISRO is at the forefront of the whole world in terms of sending missions at a low cost and the same thing was said by Prime Minister Modi on the occasion of the launch of the Indian Space Association.
- How did India’s space journey begin?
India’s space journey started on a bicycle. India had launched the first rocket in the year 1963 in Thumba, Kerala and then, the rocket was carried to the launch pad by bicycle and was launched from a church in Thumba. The father of the Indian space program and great scientist Dr. Vikram Sarabhai had chosen Thumba in Kerala for the country’s first space mission and the reason for this was that Vikram Sarabhai did not want to take any risk, or risk in this mission. Were. So he looked for a place that was right and safe for rocket launch. Thumba had a Christian fishermen’s village and a church among coconut groves, located above the Earth’s magnetic equator.
The priest of the church helped in this work. During this, Dr. Vikram Sarabhai called all the villagers on Sunday and told them that he wants to fulfill India’s dream of space. The country needs villagers in this work. The clergy and the people of the village in one voice handed over the church to the scientists. The scientists of India had only one car at that time, which was always busy. Therefore, on 21 November 1963, different parts of the rocket were carried on a bicycle and thus India’s space journey began.
This rocket was bought by India from America, but after 4 years in 1967, India made its own rocket and it was launched from Thumba itself. In the year 1975, India made its own satellite and the country’s first satellite was named Aryabhatta. It was sent to space with the help of Russian rocket. Even at that time we lacked basic facilities, but during the launch of Aryabhatta satellite, a toilet in Bangalore was converted into a data center.
In 1981, India was trying to launch its first communication satellite. The payload was ready, but the challenge was to find a metal-free vehicle, as a vehicle that is metal-free is needed to carry the payload. Now the question before the scientists was that what can be a metal free vehicle? Bicycles also have metal. Car or jeep also has metal. Now here India’s jugaad tradition came into play again. Scientists chose bullock cart to carry the payload.
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