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ISRO has dismissed the claims that it is undergoing privatisation, stating that India's space ambitions cannot be solely achieved by ISRO manpower and government resources.

The immediate concern comes from a statement made by Pawan Goenka, who said that ISRO would eventually not manufacture launch vehicles and that the work would be carried out by private companies or PSUs.

The EOS-05 will keep a close watch on the Indian subcontinent from the sky. It will provide real-time imagery of large-area regions at frequent intervals, which will be useful in activities such as agriculture, disaster management, and the monitoring of cyclones, cloudbursts, and thunderstorms.

ISRO will attempt the launch of the ‘Naughty Boy’ Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle, or GSLV-F17, from the Second Launchpad at Sriharikota to deploy EOS-5, India's first Earth Observation Satellite to operate from geosynchronous orbit, 36,000 kilometres above India.

Success of Skyroot in placing Vikram-1 rocket into orbit on its maiden flight shows how policy liberalisation and institutional support have transformed India’s private space ecosystem.

Named after Dr Vikram Sarabhai, regarded as the father of India's space programme, Vikram-1 is a 24-metre-tall, four-stage launch vehicle built primarily using lightweight carbon-composite materials.

The Gujarat Government has announced the setting up of Common Technical Facilities (CTF) for the Space Manufacturing Park being developed at Khoraj GIDC near Ahmedabad.