I use WordPress software for all my blogs, but I don’t quite understand this. Were they actually using WordPress as a host? If so, while this is stupid, they could in fact simply find a new host. This sort of thing is why I lease my own server.
This is a huge change. ISRO is finally loosening its reins on the space industry.
I had a phone conversation with a would-be Indian space entrepreneur a few years ago who was wondering how to get this to happen. I would have hoped it would have happened sooner under Modi, but better late than never. This should make them even more receptive to multilateral agreements like the Artemis Accords, or along the lines of my IAC paper.
I’ve been attending the virtual Space Settlement Summit for the past couple days, but I just noticed that Gabriel Swiney happened to put up a relevant Twitter thread on the topic of space governance.