Indian Space Startups: For close to six decades, it was the government – namely, the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro), and the Department of Space – that charted the country’s path in this sector. But ask its space mavens and they’d tell you that India is today ready to take the leap to the next level. That’s thanks to the realisation that the journey forward could not be completed without wider participation, and the resultant decision, taken in the middle of 2020, to open up the space sector to private players.