Senior Fellow, Manohar Parrikar IDSA, Gp. Capt. Ajey Lele’s article ‘Military Satellites: India needs to FastTrack’ has been published in Financial Express on November 26, 2021.
ISRO could manage only two rocket launches for putting satellites into orbit during 2021 and no more launches are expected during this year. There is an urgent need for ISRO to find a way out of the present crisis and resume launching at the earliest. Unfortunately, amongst the important space players, it is only ISRO, which has suffered maximum owing to the present health crisis and automatically that has impacted India’s strategic space programme, says Gp. Capt. Lele.