We are so delighted to publish the book titled “ISRO till 2020”. This book is prepared for the school and college students to gain a sound knowledge on the history of ISRO and we are sure that this will be helpful. This book is presented in a simple language. We have received lot of encouragement from my friends, family and students during the preparation of this “ISRO TILL 2020” and we would like to thank all of them from the bottom of our heart. Valuable feedback and suggestions for the improvement of this work will always be welcome and we hope that this book will meet the expectation of students.

Due to the lockdown applied by the Government to contain the spread of COVID-19, the second quarter issue of Indian Defence Review [Apr-Jun 2020, (Vol 35.2)] was not published. It is amalgamated with issue of Indian Defence Review [Jul-Sep 2020, (Vol 35.3)] IN THIS VOLUME: • Did a Global Pandemic Generate a Global Pandemonium? — Lt Gen (Dr) JS Bajwa • Effectiveness of India’s Strategic Culture — Gp Capt PK Mulay • The IAF in a Two-Front War — Air Marshal Anil Chopra • Maritime Dimensions of India’s Foreign Policy — Vice Adm MP Muralidharan • Airspace Control: Challenges and Way Ahead — Gp Capt AK Sachdev • Evolving Trends in Aerial Combat — Air Marshal Anil Chopra • Indian Model of Theatre Commands: The Road Ahead! — Maj Gen SB Asthana • Is the Indian Soldier Overloaded?: Right Sizing the Armed Forces — Navneet Bhushan • Pakistan’s Mystery Submarine — Lt Gen Prakash Katoch • An Indian in Space: Isro’s Human Spaceflight Programme — Gp Capt Joseph Noronha • Indian Defence Private Sector: Some Initial Successes yet Miles to Go — Lt Gen VK Saxena • The Coronavirus Pandemic and The New Global World — Lt Gen Jasbir Lidder • The Myth of China — Dr Rajasimman Sundaram • Line of Actual Control: Fast Forward to Summer of 2021 — Lt Gen (Dr) JS Bajwa • Touted as a peace deal, the Taliban celebrates U.S. withdrawal as a victory — Terry Bishop • Afghanistan: An Arena of Indo-Pak Conflict — Col RN Ghosh Dastidar • What will happen if India recognizes Tibet? — Dr Amarjit Singh • The Critical Factors that Contribute to a Country’s Military Strength — Jay Bhattacharjee • Aerospace and Defence News — Priya Tyagi • Indian Quest for Air Supremacy: The Rafale — Danvir Singh • Shifting Claim Lines of Nepal: Kalapani to Lampiyadhura a Historical Perspective — Brig BS Chauhan • Free Tibet — Lt Gen Prakash Katoch • The Last Gallop — Lt Gen SR Ghosh • Book Reviews

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Fifty years in the making, India's Space Programme is fulfilling the vision of its founders and delivering services from space that touch the lives of 1.3 billion people every day. In addition to operating a collection of satellites for weather, Earth observation, navigation and communication today, India has a spacecraft orbiting Mars and a space telescope in Earth orbit. This book provides the big picture of India's long association with science, from historical figures like Aryabhata and Bhaskara to Homi Bhabha and Vikram Sarabhai, the key architects of its space program. It covers the scientific contribution of Indian scientists during the European Enlightenment and industrial revolution. It traces the technological development of Tipu Sultan's use of rockets for war in the 1780s; the all-but-forgotten contribution of Stephen H Smith's use of rockets as a means of transport in 1935 in northern India; and the emergence of Sriharikota – India's spaceport, the heart of India's modern Space Programme. • A detailed account of how a fishing village in Kerala was transformed into a space centre and used to launch India's first rocket into space on 21 November 1963. • A detailed summary of India's space infrastructure – launch vehicles, deep space network, Telemetry, Tracking and Command and space assets in orbit. • Description of how the ordinary people of India benefit from the services delivered by the space programme • Why India chose to go to the Moon and Mars and how it got there. • The prospects for India's ambitions in space for human spaceflight, national security and scientific exploration • An analysis of how India's Space Programme may play out on the global stage. Will it compete or collaborate with China, USA and Russia in space? This detailed work, in 645 pages, 29 tables and 9 appendices, is richly illustrated with 140+ illustrations (some images published for the first time) and supported by over 1,000 references. It is written for the non-specialist, offering a big-picture view.

Space Security involves the use of space (in particular communication, navigation, earth observation, and electronic intelligence satellites) for military and security purposes on earth and also the maintenance of space (in particular the earth orbits) as safe and secure areas for conducting peaceful activities. The two aspects can be summarized as "space for security on earth" and “the safeguarding of space for peaceful endeavors.” The Handbook will provide a sophisticated, cutting-edge resource on the space security policy portfolio and the associated assets, assisting fellow members of the global space community and other interested policy-making and academic audiences in keeping abreast of the current and future directions of this vital dimension of international space policy. The debate on coordinated space security measures, including relevant 'Transparency and Confidence-Building Measures,' remains at a relatively early stage of development. The book offers a comprehensive description of the various components of space security and how these challenges are being addressed today. It will also provide a number of recommendations concerning how best to advance this space policy area, given the often competing objectives of the world's major space-faring nations. The critical role to be played by the United States and Europe as an intermediary and "middle diplomat" in promoting sustainable norms of behavior for space will likewise be highlighted. In providing a global and coherent analytical approach to space security today, the Handbook focuses on four areas that together define the entire space security area: policies, technologies, applications, and programs. This structure will assure the overall view of the subject from its political to its technical aspects. Internationally recognized experts in each of the above fields contribute, with their analytical synthesis assured by the section editors.

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A top scientist is falsely accused of selling space technology secrets. A police inspector's misadventure with a Maldivian woman results in a fabricated espionage case. A faction within a political party capitalises on the case to bring down a government. An intelligence agency obligingly plays into the hands of vested interests to slow down India's space programme. And a complex investigation finally proves the allegations untrue. In this riveting book, Isro scientist S Nambi Narayanan - who was falsely accused of espionage in ISRO spy case of the 1990s - and senior journalist Arun Ram meticulously unpick the ISRO spy case, revisit old material and discover new details to expose the international plot that delayed India's development of a cryogenic engine by at least a decade. It took four years for the CBI to exonerate Nambi, but his fight for justice to ensure action against the officers who faked the case and tortured him in custody continues. This book is as much a history of the early days of India's ambitious space programme as it is a record of one of the most sensational cases that enthralled the nation long before the era of online updates and 24-hour news cycles.