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Published in Mohammad Razani, Commercial Space Technologies and Applications, 2018

In 1962, the Indian National Committee for Space Research (INCOSPAR) was established which was followed by the ISRO (Indian Space Research Organization) in 1969. ISRO institutionalized space activities in India.56

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Published in History and Technology, 2020

Asif A. Siddiqi

The use of direct-broadcasting from geostationary satellites fell squarely in line with Sarabhai’s notion of using technology to educate the rural population in India. But India could not, at least at that time, implement such a project by itself, and would need the help of an established space power such as the United States. In 1962, Sarabhai had established the institutional seed of a space program, formally known as the Indian National Committee for Space Research (INCOSPAR). Subsumed under the auspices of Bhabha’s Department of Atomic Energy, INCOSPAR was at the time simply a small cell of Indian scientists with hardly any infrastructure. But Sarabhai’s international reputation proffered on INCOSPAR the sheen of legitimacy, and by the mid-1960s, with the significant material help and expertise from the United States, France, and the Soviet Union, this small organization was lofting rockets into the upper atmosphere from a firing range in Kerala in South India.44

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