October 22, 2026
Chairman, ISRO/ Secretary DOS participated in the 77th IAC, organised by International Astronautical Federation (IAF) and hosted by Turkish Space Agency (TUA); at Antalya, Türkiye, during October 5-9, 2026. As part of this, Chairman, ISRO/ Secretary, DOS has also participated in the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) Academy Day program including the IAA Board of Trustees meeting on October 4, 2026.
At IAC, Chairman, ISRO/ Secretary, DOS has participated in the High-level Plenary panel titled ‘One-to-One interviews with Global Space Agency Leaders’ on the opening day of IAC, and responded to the queries from the moderator on ensuing space benefits for all, ISRO’s space sustainability efforts and views on international space cooperation.
One-to-One interviews with Global Space Agency Leaders
At the IAC, ISRO, IN-SPACe and NSIL jointly established Indian Space pavilion as part of the IAC Exhibition. Ten (10) Indian space industries/ start-ups were given opportunity to showcase their expertise, as part of this pavilion.
India pavilion at the IAC 2026 Exhibition
Opening of the Exhibition at IAC
India’s efforts in using space technology in mitigating Earth’s challenges and disasters was highlighted by Chairman, ISRO/ Secretary, DOS at ‘IAF Space Leaders’ Summit’ on October 5, 2026.
IAF Global Space Leaders Summit
Chairman, ISRO/ Secretary, DOS participated in the Artemis Accords Principals meeting and shared views on how Artemis signatories can support development of capabilities by emerging space nations and on taking the discussions under the Artemis Accords to relevant multilateral forum like the UNCOPUOS.
Artemis Accords Principals meeting
Chairman, ISRO/ Secretary, DOS chaired bilateral meetings with leaders of space agencies including NASA (USA), ESA (Europe), CNES (France), ASI (Italy), ASA (Australia), CSA (Canada), UKSA (United Kingdom), CONAE (Argentina), JAXA (Japan), NLSA (Netherlands), and Uzbekistan Space Agency; and also with representatives of a few space industries. Collaboration possibilities in human spaceflight programme, lunar exploration, Bharathiya Anthariksh Station and capacity building were discussed during the bilateral meetings. Chairman IN-SPACe, Dr Pawan Goenka joined these meetings and shared the details on emerging private space ecosystem and the collaboration opportunities at the industry level.
Meeting with President, JAXA
Meeting with Head, Australian Space Agency
Meeting with Special Commissioner, Italian Space Agency
Meeting with Deputy Administrator, NASA, USA
Meeting with Director, UK Space Agency
Meeting with President, Canadian Space Agency
Meeting with President CNES, France
Meeting with Director General European Space Agency
Meeting with Executive and Technical Director, Argentinian Space Agency
Meeting with Director General, Uzbekistan Space Agency
Meeting with Director, Netherlands Space Agency
Chairman, ISRO/ Secretary, DOS has also addressed the gathering of the ‘Networking Reception’ organised by IN-SPACe (in coordination with Indian mission at Türkiye) on emerging Indian space ecosystem on October 6, 2026 Chairman IN-SPACe and Ambassador of India to Türkiye have also addressed the gathering.
Networking Reception
The member of the ISRO/DOS delegation have participated in various sessions, including Plenary events, Highlight lectures, Global Networking Forum and parallel technical sessions apart from visiting exhibition and interacting with domain experts.
Overall, DOS delegation participation at this event was successful and interaction with global stakeholders at various levels (Government, Industry, Academia, students) were very productive. This opportunity was used to highlight India’s achievements in space, successes of our government’s efforts to build a robust space ecosystem and seeking partnership and contribution from space entities of other countries on key technology areas of Space-2047 vision.