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    ETtech Long Read: ISRO's open infrastructure is giving wings to startups

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    The Department of Space is currently working on a Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) policy for the space tech sector to lay out the rules on foreign capital limits, said an entrepreneur aware of the deliberations at the government level.

    Like any starry-eyed Elon Musk fanboy, Awais Ahmed walked around SpaceX's hangar gazing at the sleeping Falcon 9s - reusable rockets that land back on earth. Ahmed was no ordinary fanboy. He was among a bunch of Hyperloop Pod finalists - a SpaceX initiative to inspire young scientists - who had received an invitation to visit its headquarters in Hawthorne (California) in 2017 and shake hands with the Tesla Inc co-founder himself.For Ahmed, the
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