{"id":995,"date":"2026-09-08T20:23:29","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T20:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/x.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php\/editorials-opinions-analysis-for-upsc-08-september-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T20:23:29","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T20:23:29","slug":"editorials-opinions-analysis-for-upsc-08-september-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/x.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php\/editorials-opinions-analysis-for-upsc-08-september-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Editorials\/Opinions Analysis For UPSC 08 September 2026 | Legacy IAS"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Editorials, Opinions & Explained<\/span>3 Items<\/span><\/p>\n

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\n EditorialsThe Hindu \u2014 Editorial Page<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

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Ground Control: ISRO Must Focus on Space Technology as a Tool for Development<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n

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GS-III \u00b7 Science & Technology \u2014 Space Policy<\/span>
\n Prelims + Mains<\/span>
\n The Hindu \u00b7 Editorial<\/span>\n <\/p>\n

Even as ISRO launched its first geosynchronous imaging satellite, EOS-05, on a GSLV, nine employee associations wrote to the chairman seeking clarity on staff strength, recruitment and the outsourcing of core functions.<\/p>\n

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\u25c8 Background & Context<\/p>\n

The Indian Space Policy of April 2023 signalled that ISRO would eventually step back from making commercial satellites and launch rockets, leaving that role to private industry via IN-SPACe, while ISRO itself moves toward exploratory, NASA-style missions.<\/p>\n

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  • ISRO has stated it will “not be privatised or reduced”; IN-SPACe says the agency will “not be diminished” \u2014 but neither addresses the employees’ core concern of potential job losses.<\/li>\n
  • Unlike NASA’s early years of designing “every nut and bolt,” ISRO has long worked with established private manufacturers such as Walchandnagar and L&T; the new element is a wave of capital-light start-ups focused on satellite data services rather than hardware.<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n

    Comparative benchmark \u2014 NASA’s own scale-back<\/p>\n

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    • Department of Space budget: \u20b913,705 crore, against NASA’s $24.4 billion \u2014 roughly a sixteen-fold gap.<\/li>\n
    • NASA’s spending fell from 0.7% of US GDP in 1966 to about 0.1% today; its civil-service headcount fell from about 36,000 at Apollo’s peak to roughly 14,000 now.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

      The critical view<\/p>\n