PARIS — India’s government-owned commercial space arm, Antrix, is more worried about the coming domestic competition for the launch of small satellites than about any threat from non-Indian launchers, Antrix Chairman Rakesh Sasibhushan said.
Whether that local competition will come is still uncertain, but a Space Act in preparation by the Indian government and likely to be presented for government approval this year would open the way to much more competition in India’s largely closed satellite and rocket sector.
“India is pretty much a . . .
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