To participate in the 350+ billion dollar global space economy India must adopt an extroverted space policy and empower Indian companies to reach beyond serving domestic needs to compete internationally.
Policy Writings
By Susmita Mohanty, Founder-CEO, Earth2Orbit
India Is Sitting On A Space Goldmine
29 August 2013, Published by Gateway House
A Tale Of Two Rockets
28 February 2011, Published by Gateway House
Rocket Economics, Not Science
16 July 2010, Published by Gateway House
Blogs
A Slingshot For India, A Catapult For Humankind
By Susmita Mohanty, Founder-CEO, Earth2Orbit
4 December, 2013, Published as a guest blog on FT.com > beyond brics
Big Bang For Small Buck
By Susmita Mohanty, Founder-CEO, Earth2Orbit 19 November, 2013, Published as a guest blog on FT.com > beyond brics
Radio
2014: NPR: India Zooms To Mars Much More Cheaply, But With Trade-Offs: Senior Editor Geoff Brumfiel interviews Amaresh Kollipara
2015: BBC Newshour Extra: Owen Bennett Jones interviews Susmita Mohanty, Elon Musk, et al.
2017: MONOCLE, London: Foreign Desk, Episode 197: Space: Soft power's final frontier: Andrew Mueller talks to Susmita Mohanty, Astronaut Chris Hadfield and others
Press
“Ignore The Pessimists: Why Isro’s Mars Mission is Important”, Kavitha Iyer interviews Susmita Mohanty, 6 November, 2013
“To Infinity and Beyond”, Mansi Kapur, June 27, 2017
“The Woman Behind India’s First Space Start-Up is now Tackling Climate Change from Outer Space”, Ambika Behal, September 26, 2017
Events
2018: VR/AR in Space: The Next Space Revolution
SETI Talks, 19 July 2018, SRI International, Menlo Park; E2O Co-Founder Amaresh Kollipara presented how VR/AR technologies are used by NASA, ESA and others for space exploration, mission simulation, and public outreach.
2018: City X-Change Summit
100 Resilient Cities (100RC) + The Rockefeller Foundation Summit, 20-24 May 2018, The Rockefeller Bellagio Center, Italy. Invited Participants included: 10 start-ups from around the globe including Earth2Orbit, Social impact investors, City Mayors and Chief Resilience Officers (CRO) from Greece, Atlanta, Belfast, Calgary, Chennai, El Paso, Honolulu, Pittsburg, Pune, Quit.
2017: The New Space Age
The Economist Magazine’s Inaugural Global Space Summit, 9 November 2017, Museum of Flight, Seattle; E2O co-founder Dr. Susmita Mohanty was interviewed by British science writer and editor Oliver Morton.
2017: Skolkovo Startup Village
Largest Tech Start-up Conference in Eastern Europe, 6 June 2017, Skolkovo Innovation Center, Moscow; E2O co-founder Amaresh Kollipara delivered Hottest Tech Forecasts Talk in Plenary Session and participated in New Markets in Space panel.
2017: The Disrupt Space Summit
Global Conference @ Growing Space Ventures, 14 March 2017, Berlin; Opening Keynote Address delivered by E2O co-founder Amaresh Kollipara.
2014: Big Data from Space: Actionable Intelligence on Earth
Stanford – MIT Venture LAB Panel, 22 October 2014, Stanford Business School, Palo Alto; E2O co-founder Amaresh Kollipara was the Moderator. Panelists included executives from Spaceknow, Spire, Planet Labs, Digital Globe, Skybox Imaging.
2014: The Future of Invention
TIME Magazine Panel, 28 May 2014, Studio Theatre, School of the Arts, Singapore; E2O co-founder Dr. Susmita Mohanty was one of the invited Panelists. Moderators included Jeffrey Kluger, TIME Editor-At-Large and Hannah Beach, TIME China Bureau Chief.
2014: Early Days in the Next Generation Space Race
St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) Panel, 22 May 2014, St. Petersburg; E2O co-founder Dr. Susmita Mohanty was one of the invited Panelists. Senior Editor of Popular Mechanics Joe Pappalardo was the Moderator.
2011: Space Exploration: Not Just For Billionaires Anymore
V-LAB Panel, 20 September 2011, Cemex Auditorium, Stanford Graduate School of Business, Palo Alto; E2O co-founder Amaresh Kollipara was the Moderator and Panelists included executives from NanoRacks, Virgin Galactic, Moon Express and Space Systems Loral.