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Chennai, Indian private sector players wanting to provide communication service within and outside India using a space-based asset are liable for damages caused to other space objects in outer space and its environment, states the Draft Space Based Communication Policy of India-2020 (Spacecom Policy-2020) and draft Norms, Guidelines and Procedures for implementation of Spacecom Policy-2020 (Spacecom NGP-2020). According to the drafts released by the Department of Space (DOS), private players can provide communication services using space based assets within and outside India. As regards any damages that may occur to other space objects in the outer space the private service providers are liable for financial damages and they have to take care of that by providing financial guarantee or insurance cover. The extent of financial guarantee or the insurance cover will be determined by the Indian authorising/licensing body taking into account the risks involved in nature and operations of that space object in outer space. The DOS has called for comments on the draft policy by 4.11.2020. According to the draft Spacecom Policy-2020 any communication service within the Indian territory from space can be carried out only with an authorised space asset. Only Indian entities are eligible for obtaining space asset authorisation. As per the draft policy, any Indian entity can seek authorisation for use of space asset for communication within Indian territory. This authorisation addresses use of Indian orbital resource, non-Indian orbital resource, use of owned or leased space asset. The draft policy also proposes to allow Indian companies to establish ground system within Indian territory for monitoring and controlling space asset. While use of outer space for peaceful purposes is governed by the UN treaties and international conventions, use of orbital resources is governed by radio regulations of the specialised UN agency, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). Government of India as member of such UN bodies has responsibilities and obligations towards use of outer space as a common province of humanity. Towards meeting this responsibility and obligation, it is essential that Government of India has the knowledge and provisions of having control on the activities with respect to any communication involving space objects from its territory and defines the roles and responsibilities for each of the stakeholders. This necessitates that the use of space based communication in any frequency of electromagnetic spectrum, to or from Indian territory, be permitted through a process of authorisation. Under the provisions of Spacecom Policy-2020, Indian entities can establish and operate satellite systems to provide capacity for communication services with authorisations. Indian entities can undertake design, development and realisation of satellites and associated communication systems. They can establish satellite system through their own built satellite or procured satellite. The Indian companies can establish telemetry, tracking and command (TT&amp;C) earth stations and satellite control centre (SCC) in or outside India. They can offer the capacity to commercial and societal communications within India as well as outside India. They can also supply their systems and solutions to international markets. Indian entities can avail Indian as well as non-Indian orbital resources to establish their space based systems for communication services over India and outside India. Indian orbital resources can be availed from designated public sector undertaking under DOS on commercial basis subject to availability. The authorised Indian entities can directly offer their capacities to customers. As per the proposed policy use of Non-Indian orbital resources shall be permitted subject to an appropriate arrangement by which such orbital resources are eventually brought under Indian administration, through Indian ITU filing. "The authorization requires a satisfactory commitment by the applicant through an appropriate arrangement with the concerned foreign administration which has the priority for the use of the proposed orbital resources. In case of a leased space asset, apart from the applicant, the operator of such asset shall also agree and commit for the arrangement of bringing the orbital resources eventually under Indian administration," the draft policy notes. The Spacecom Policy-2020 states that the Government of India shall: #Adopt measures to monitor and authorise use of space assets for communication to or from Indian territory. #Ensure protection of space assets already put in place and adopt measures to bring in more space assets under the administrative control for enhancing ability to utilize space based communication for national needs. #Promote increased participation of commercial Indian industry to provide space based communications both within the country and outside. #Concentrate on realisation of space based communication systems for addressing the requirements that cannot be effectively, affordably and reliably satisfied by commercial Indian industry either because of national security concerns or economic factors. #Provide a timely and responsive regulatory environment for the commercial Indian industry to establish and operate space based communication systems. It is an opportune time to enable commercial communication activities to be carried out by non-governmental Indian entities to not only meet Indian requirements but also enable them to become significant players in global space communication arena, the draft policy notes. 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India's Draft Space Communications Policy puts liability for damage to outer space objects on private sector players

With a vision to make <keyword id="68884" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Telangana">Telangana</keyword> a commercial hub for all space-related products and services, the state government has decided to formulate a space-tech policy framework. The policy aims to push domestic production of launch vehicles, satellite systems and sub-systems and ground equipment manufacturing. State's Principal Secretary, Industry and Commerce, <keyword id="130896" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Jayesh-Ranjan">Jayesh Ranjan</keyword>, said on Sunday that Telangana is creating a holistic framework to develop end-to-end spacetech ecosystem in the state and attempt to capture the emerging global opportunities in space-related investments and innovations. This can potentially create a trickle-down impact on other areas of innovation such as universal connectivity and big data analytics for agriculture, remote education, disaster management, he said. Equal emphasis would be given to downstream applications of remote sensing that have the potential to solve real-life problems in agriculture, disaster management, insurance, urban flood modeling and forestry. The Centre's Department of Space recently released the draft Spacecom policy 2020 and draft SpaceRS policy 2020. Officials said states can significantly contribute to achieving the national objectives like "Atmanirbhar Bharat". Telangana is already home to several renowned start-ups such as Skyroot, Dhruva and other major companies in the spacetech sector. The city has collocated facilities of the <keyword id="152819" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Defence-Research-and-Development-Organisation">Defence Research and Development Organisation</keyword>, the <keyword id="467450" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="National-Remote-Sensing-Centre">National Remote Sensing Centre</keyword>, the Advanced Data Processing Research Institute, the Defence Research &amp; Development Laboratory, the Research Centre Imarat, the Bharat Dynamics Ltd, the Mishra Dhatu Nigam Ltd, the Ordnance Factory Board, the Defence Metallurgical Research Laboratory, and the Advanced Research Centre for Powder Metallurgy and New Materials. To formulate Telangana's spacetech policy framework, the state government held a virtual consultation. It invited stakeholders like hardware start-ups, analytics start-ups and academia to share their insights during a virtual stakeholder consultation. Uma Maheshwaran, Scientific Secretary, ISRO HQs, and Dr Ravi Kumar, Director, NRSC) also attended the event. SEE ALSO: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/science/space/news/nasa-says-its-ingenuity-mars-helicopter-sent-a-positive-status-update-as-it-prepares-for-the-flight-the-agency-is-thinking-about-future-crewed-flights-to-the-red-planet-/articleshow/81140085.cms">NASA says its Ingenuity Mars helicopter sent a positive status update. As it prepares for the flight, the agency is thinking about future crewed flights to the Red Planet.</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/science/space/news/a-japanese-supercomputer-is-on-a-mission-to-find-out-how-our-universe-went-from-nothing-to-everything-in-less-than-a-microsecond/articleshow/81048254.cms">A Japanese supercomputer is on a mission to find out how our universe went from nothing to everything in less than a microsecond</a>

Telangana government to formulate a space-tech policy framework

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="4579374" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="leland-melvin">Leland Melvin</keyword> — a <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/arnaldo-tamayo-mendez-first-black-person-astronaut-cosmonaut-reach-orbit-2020-6">Black astronaut</a>, engineer, and NFL football player — recently hosted NASA TV's coverage of the <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/spacex-launches-historic-rocket-mission-nasa-astronauts-demo-2-2020-5">first crewed rocket launch by SpaceX</a> on May 30.</li><li>Before the launch, Melvin juxtaposed the mission with the police killing of George Floyd. "America, let's get our crap together, this is unsatisfactory. We gotta stop this," he said.</li><li><keyword id="952222" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Bill-Nye">Bill Nye</keyword> later <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqmby1eGYAI" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interviewed</a> the astronaut about his life, career, and struggles with <keyword id="44060" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Racism">racism</keyword>. Melvin told Nye that, as a new high-school graduate, he was nearly arrested on false charges.</li><li>"You and I wouldn't be having this conversation right now because I would have been in prison," Melvin said, had the incident resulted in his arrest. "Once you get in that system, it's sometimes very hard to get out."</li><li>Melvin said it's not enough just to be a "good" person when it comes to racism: "If you sit there and watch and allow that atrocity to take place ... you're a part of the problem."</li></ul><a href="https://www.lelandmelvin.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Leland Melvin</a> launched to orbit twice aboard NASA space shuttles. Long before his decorated astronaut career, though, Melvin was a materials science engineer and even got <a href="https://www.wbur.org/onlyagame/2019/08/30/leland-melvin-astronaut-nfl-nasa" target="_blank" rel="noopener">drafted by the NFL</a> to play for the Detroit Lions.But in a conversation with famed science communicator Bill Nye, who's the president of the nonprofit Planetary Society, Melvin revealed a moment where his future hung in the balance — between a meteoric career and the prison system — because of the color of his skin.In 1982, Melvin had just <a href="https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/leland-melvin" target="_blank" rel="noopener">graduated</a> from Heritage High School in Lynchburg, Virginia, and was enjoying his time off before heading to the University of Richmond, where he'd go on to earn a bachelor's degree in chemistry."I was in a car with my girlfriend after graduation, and a police officer rolls up on us," Melvin told Nye, each of whom are friends, in <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqmby1eGYAI" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a YouTube video</a> published by <keyword id="2017330" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="The-Planetary-Society">the Planetary Society</keyword>. "We were just making out, talking, whatever."When the state trooper approached the car, Melvin said the officer pulled his girlfriend out and put her into his cruiser. While in his custody, the officer tried "to convince her that I was raping her, because he wanted me to go to jail," Melvin said."He said, 'If you don't say that he's raping you, I'm gonna take you to jail, your parents are going to have to come get you, and then you're going to have a record,'" he added, paraphrasing the officer's words to his girlfriend at the time. "She said, 'No, I love him, he's my boyfriend, he's going to college on a football scholarship, he's this and that,''" and that she was headed to college, too.Eventually, Melvin said the officer gave up and let them go.Had he been arrested on false charges, Melvin told Nye, "you and I wouldn't be having this conversation right now, because I would have been in prison in the prison system. And once you get in that system, it's sometimes very hard to get out of that system."<h2>'America, let's get our crap together'</h2><div type="image" title="spacex falcon 9 rocket launch crew dragon spaceship endeavour demo2 demo 2 bob robert behnken doug hurley launch complex 39a kennedy space center ksc EZT05CjXYAExgn2" height="1365" width="2048" msid="76361170" hostid="261"></div>Nye and Melvin spoke about two weeks after he drove down to Cape Canaveral to witness <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/spacex-launches-historic-rocket-mission-nasa-astronauts-demo-2-2020-5">SpaceX launch its first people into space</a>: NASA <keyword id="73998" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="astronauts">astronauts</keyword> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/nasa-astronauts-doug-hurley-bob-behnken-biography-spacex-demo2-2020-5">Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley</a>.Melvin provided live commentary on NASA TV in a <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-watch-spacex-rocket-launch-people-nasa-astronauts-youtube-2020-5">joint broadcast</a> with SpaceX during the mission's launch. On May 30, the two men soared to space inside the private company's new Crew Dragon spaceship atop a Falcon 9 rocket.But after a scrubbed launch attempt on May 27 — as the US was reeling with protests over a white police officer's killing of George Floyd, a Black man, just two days earlier (among other killings earlier in the year) — Melvin stepped onto Cocoa Beach in Florida to record his thoughts in <a href="https://www.instagram.com/tv/CAv9yYjnEZ2/?utm_source=ig_embed" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a video he later uploaded to Instagram</a>."This has got to stop. There's a pandemic now against Black men in this country, and I truly feel that it's hatred, it's evil, it's racism — it's all of these things — but it's the good people beside these people [who] are complicit, that allow this continue to go on," Melvin said in the video, which was later highlighted in <a href="https://www.space.com/spacex-launch-not-cure-for-racial-injustice.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a Space.com story</a>."I am heartbroken ... I'm looking at the juxtaposition of doing the most technologically advanced thing — sending people to space — but a man dies in police custody?" he added. "America, let's get our crap together. This is unsatisfactory. We've got to stop this. And it's going to be the good people that do nothing now that start doing something to stamp this hatred, evil, and racism out."During his chat with Nye, Melvin explained the connection he felt in watching the video of Floyd's death. (Derek Chauvin, the officer in Minneapolis now charged with second-degree murder and manslaughter, kneeled on Floyd's neck as the man pleaded not only to breathe, but for his mother.)<div type="image" title="nasa space shuttle mission sts 129 astronauts international space station leland melvin iss021e032749" height="1990" width="3000" msid="76361171" hostid="261"></div>"Bill, I started crying," Melvin said. "I think, that could have been me, that could have been Bobby Satcher [Jr.] — the first time two African American men were in space together — on STS 129," Melvin said, referring to his last spaceflight in November 2009.Melvin told Nye he is "great friends" with police officers who believe strongly in protecting and serving their communities. He also expressed optimism that things could change if the "good people" stop watching, step off the sidelines, and consistently speak out against racism they see while also pushing for reforms of racist policies and systems that have persisted in America for generations."I think we're in an inflection point in our country, really in the world, with civil rights," he said.Of the Black Lives Matter movement, and addressing the refrain among unsympathetic supporters that "all lives matter," Melvin acknowledged the hurt of other communities. But he emphasized the all-too-often deadly consequences of <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/us-systemic-racism-in-charts-graphs-data-2020-6">systemic</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-administration-doesnt-believe-in-systemic-racism-its-not-debatable-2020-6">racism</a> and <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/google-unconscious-bias-training-presentation-2015-12">unconscious bias</a> against Black people, whom police use <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/08/us/us-police-floyd-protests-country-comparisons-intl/index.html">more frequently use force against</a>, and are <a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/06/11/opinion/statistical-paradox-police-killings/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">disproportionately</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/young-black-males-are-21-times-more-likely-to-be-shot-dead-by-police-2014-10" rel="noopener">killed</a> relative to other races on <a href="https://mappingpoliceviolence.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a per-capita basis</a>."'Black Lives Matter' doesn't mean that all lives don't matter. There's a pandemic in the Black community now that's causing our lives to be squashed out," Melvin said. "So we have to focus on the Black lives right now."<h2>Watch the whole discussion between Melvin and Nye</h2>This story has been updated with additional information.

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