"We must move from using space as a program to treating it as continuious operation asset : Chief of Defence Staff

Chennai/New Delhi, April 23 -- Chief of Defence Staff General Anil Chauhan on Thursday observed that India must move from using space as a program to treating it as a continuous operational asset.

In his virtual address after inaugurating the Indian Defence Space Symposium (IDS) 2026, organised by the Indian Space Association (ISpA) in New Delhi, he said "our objective is not merely to access space, but to secure operational advantage through space."Gen Anil Chauhan said, "We must target towards distributed, resilient, and proliferated architectures with redundancy, inter-satellite links, and rapid replenishment capability. Future space capability will not be built by government agencies alone. It will be co-developed with industry, start-...