Space exploration was unthinkable for anyone except the US and USSR in the early 1960s. Today, students and startups can launch satellites. Narayan Prasad joins us on this episode of The Pragati Podcast to tell us about this amazing transformation of human activities in space.

The Pragati Podcast is a weekly show on public policy, economics and international relations hosted by Pavan Srinath.

Narayan Prasad joins us to share how the space economy has evolved over the last sixty years, and what's happening in India.

Narayan Prasad is a co-founder at Satsearch, a global marketplace for space which is incubated by the European Space Agency. He is also an Associate Research Fellow at the European Space Policy Institute, and he helped start New Space India, where a growing group of space enthusiasts and professionals are coming together to form a community in India.

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