India’s space journey has evolved beyond a string of spectacular missions. On National Space Day 2025 (August 23), he urged young citizens to see themselves as participants in India’s human space programme. The transformation of India’s space sector is deliberate and ambitious. At the policy level, the National Meet 2.0 held just before National Space Day produced 5,000-plus pages of documentation across 300 user interactions. S. Somanath was former Secretary, Department of Space, and Chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).

Source: The Hindu January 01, 2026 17:16 UTC