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Evolution of National Space Policy as Predominantly Implicit Policy: India, an Intrinsic Case Study
Author(s)
Sanath Panawennage
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DOI:10.17265/2162-5298/2021.02.004
Affiliation(s)
Arthur C Clarke Institute for Modern Technologies, Katubedda, Moratuwa 10400, Sri Lanka
ABSTRACT
India, despite being a leading space-faring nation, and operating one of
the six largest space programmes in the world, has developed little in terms of
expressly documented national space policy over its 58-year history of space
activity—besides two standalone policy documents primarily designed to address
some operational policy issues pertaining to satellite communication services
and use of remote sensing data. However, the Indian space programme, given its
phenomenal technological advancements and operational maturity achieved over
the decades, clearly exhibits evidence of having been continually and
consistently guided, since its very inception, by a cohesive and consistent
policy so far as its directional and strategic policy aspects are concerned. In
other words, there does exist an apparent undeclared policy embedded in the
Indian space establishment that has continued to inform and guide its strategic
decisions and actions. The objective of the present case-study is to
systematically describe the evolution of the national space policy of India,
predominantly as implicit policy, as reflected by the key decisions and actions
of the Indian national space establishment since beginning of the Indian space
programme. This analysis strives to identify the directional and the strategic
elements of policy as reflected by the decisions and actions of the space
establishment, and the socio-economic, technological, political and
institutional factors that have influenced such policies.
KEYWORDS
Space policy, implicit policy, Indian space policy and legislation, national space establishment, Indian space programme.
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