Indian space agency ISRO would significantly scale up outsourcing to industries to fuel the quantum jump in the programmes being undertaken by it and has mooted a risk-sharing model, its chairman K Radhakrishnan said on Monday.
He said more than 500 industries (micro, small, medium and large) already account for 60 per cent production of the space agency’s programme and their share would further go up.
Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is witnessing a “quantum jump” in the production of rockets (Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle) and satellites, in the last two-three years
Source:http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2011-07-11/news/29761078_1_isro-polar-satellite-launch-vehicle-foreign-satellites
