Tapan Misra Dateline July 2012. Just a couple of months back we launched RISAT satellite. I was visiting US State Department in Washington DC as part of Indo US dialogue on space. During the “samosa break”, I mean snack break offering Samosa to participants, Charles Bolden, NASA Administrator, took me aside and asked me in… Read More Major policy change hidden in “Atmanirbhar” Programme
Lalit Shastri An official ISRO communiqué, based on a press meet addressed by the chairman of the organisation K Sivan and released by ISRO on Wednesday 1 January, sums up the achievements of India’s Apex Space research organisation during the year 2019 without a word about the Chandrayaan-2 Mission that was supposed to be 98… Read More ISRO is silent about Lander Vikram; Chandrayaan-3 and Gaganyaan are the new focus
Lalit Shastri We have a situation where a top post was degraded and instead of a senior officer at the Additional Secretary level holding fort as Financial Advisor in DoS and ISRO, an officer at the Joint Secretary level was posted there. It is learnt that even the present Joint Secretary and FA, Anoop Shrivastava,… Read More ISRO: Time for Change of leadership
