ACC proposes Pawan Goenka as chairperson of In-SPACe

Former managing director of Mahindra & Mahindra Pawan Kumar Goenka has been proposed as the chairperson of Indian National Space Promotion Authorization Centre (In-Space), the regulator for India's space industry

The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet approved the proposal of appointment on September 7, according to a notification. The Department of Space has to finalise the appointment.

In-Space, formed last year, will also act as a regulator whose rulings would be bound by both the space agency as well as private firms in the country. In-Space will have members academia, government as well as industry representatives on its board and will be under the Space Commission.


Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) will focus more on building new technologies, human spaceflight programmes and deep space missions and would transfer the operational satellites, rockets, and applications to New Space India Ltd (NSIL), the commercial arm of Isro, which will be the interface to engage with startups and private companies for new applications and use the space infrastructure to build them.