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For many decades, there were few rocket launches and few new satellites in orbit every year, so there were also few re-entries, and most of them simply burned up in the atmosphere with little consequence. But today, low-earth orbits several thousand satellites, with private companies planning for many, many more
Narayanan highlighted India's growing capabilities in space technology and said the country is now using space-based applications across more than 50 areas.