PARLIAMENT QUESTION: EXPANDING SATELLITE LAUNCH SERVICES

• NSIL (NewSpace India Limited), a CPSE under the Department of Space (DoS), is the commercial arm of ISRO driving the post-2020 commercialisation of India's satellite launch ecosystem.
• Topic captures the June 2020 space-sector reforms that opened end-to-end space activities to Non-Government Entities (NGEs) through the IN-SPACe single-window authoriser.
• High UPSC salience: maps to GS-III (S&T, economy) and GS-II (governance/PSUs); rich in Prelims facts (PSLV, SSLV, LVM3, TTAs, IN-SPACe).