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Space Reforms
Space Reforms
Space Reforms
The News
The News
What is NSIL?
GSAT – 24
- NewSpace India Limited (NSIL), the newly created commercial arm of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), will put together its first demand-based communication satellite GSAT – 24.
- The GSAT-24 will be a 4,000 kg class Ku-band satellite with all transponders dedicated for DTH services.
- NSIL will place the order with ISRO to develop this satellite whose services will be eased out to private players.
Who will launch GSAT – 24?
Who will use GSAT – 24?
- According to NSIL, the entire satellite capacity on-board GSAT-24 will be leased to its committed customer M/s Tata Sky for meeting their DTH application needs.
- Note: The satellite will be owned and operated by NSIL, which will also be the intermediary agency between ISRO, Arianespace and Tata Sky.
What’s different now?
- The move is a shift from existing policy in which transponders on communication satellites are leased to customers like DTH service providers.
- So the basic shift here is that “Earlier ISRO was supply-driven and now NSIL is demand-driven”.
- The move to get NSIL to own and operate ISRO’s communication satellites is an effort to maximise profits from satellite launches and to allow ISRO to focus on “advanced research and development.
- The basic thing is that there should be an identified customer who is going to fully utilise the satellite capacity and there should be good profitability.
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