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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.

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Reliance: Foreign entities are now being allowed to set up infrastructure and offer satellite services in India. But they need to seek approval from IN-SPACe. India’s new Space Policy 2023 has empowered IN-SPACe—an autonomous central regulatory body—to act as the sole single-window agency to authorise the gamut of space activities by both government and private satcom players.

Previously, the US company had applied to the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) for a license to provide global mobile personal communication by satellite services (GMPCS), , Starlink, Satellite Internet, Department of Telecommunications (DoT)

In India, the company will be pitted against Bharti Group-backed OneWeb, Amazon and Reliance Jio's satcom arm. According to sources, a security check from the Ministry of Home Affairs is underway for Starlink's GMPCS license, which is likely to be granted in a couple of months., Companies News, Times Now