{"id":33895,"date":"2018-10-30T14:49:24","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T09:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=33895"},"modified":"2018-10-30T14:49:24","modified_gmt":"2018-10-30T09:19:24","slug":"isro-open-doors-to-private-sector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/isro-open-doors-to-private-sector\/","title":{"rendered":"ISRO open doors to private sector"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/isro-opens-doors-to-private-sector\/article20603113.ece\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ISRO open doors to private sector<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Context<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) recently issued a tender to the private industry for Assembly, Integration and Testing (AIT) of 30-35 satellites.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>How would the tendering be done?<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> ISRO has issued a Request For Proposal (RFP) to the private industry to build 30-35 satellites over three years.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Under this, 4-5 companies would be selected after evaluation and awarded parallel contracts.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They would be responsible for the AIT of satellites at ISRO facilities.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Private industries first would get training at the facilities of ISRO, in the next step they will build their own facilities after gaining enough expertise<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Why this arrangement?<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> ISRO currently launches 3-4 launches per year but the demand is for 16-18 satellites.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ISRO is planning to launch 58 satellites in the next 3-4 years.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In-house capacity of ISRO is limited. So it is looking to offload 30-40% of the work to the private sector.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISRO open doors to private sector Context Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) recently issued a tender to the private industry for Assembly, Integration and Testing (AIT) of 30-35 satellites. How would the tendering be done? ISRO has issued a Request For Proposal (RFP) to the private industry to build 30-35 satellites over three years. Under&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/isro-open-doors-to-private-sector\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">ISRO open doors to private sector<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-public","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704889957},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}