ISRO-Devas fallout: US firm moves court as ‘interested party’

A US-based firm, Spaceflight Inc, which uses Indian Space Research Organisation rockets, among others to provide global space launch services, has moved a US court as an “interested party” in the wake of the US court allowing identification of assets of ISRO’s commercial arm Antrix Corporation for recovery of a $1.2 billion compensation award.

Spaceflight Inc, which signed up in 2019 to be the first user of ISRO’s Small Satellite Launch Vehicle — which is still under development — and facilitated the launch of Brazil’s first satellite in February this year on ISRO’s PSLV-C51, moved the US federal court for the western district of Washington at the end of October.