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Speakers at the BSX-2022
Conference
Narayan Prasad, COO, SATSEARCH
I began as a student, probably 15 upon is to globalize the supply chain
years ago, trying to build storage and flatten the whole thing. Expose
satellites out here in India. And one supply chains in India, in South Korea
thing that struck my mind is everything and Japan and Russia and other
so expensive when we buy everything places as well. So one of the things
from outside? And why don't we do that we saw as a key missing tool in the
this here? So studied in Europe and international realm is a supply chain
came back and set up a company platform that exposes international
called Through US. Base here. It's one capability. So, you increase the
of the exhibitors here. And I'm very competitiveness of the industry and it
happy that today has flown a couple of reduces the price and reduce
missions and has taken off beyond eventually apply economics to access
that. I think one of the things that to space.
struck me back then is how little is the I probably want to say one of the other
visibility of the Indian supply chain, things is there are two kinds of Indian
because at the end, we have so many companies that I see. One of
interesting capabilities in this country, infrastructure, manpower, and
but unfortunately, we are not exposed capability to produce something. One
to the international audience or the of somebody who has real full products
international supply chain as to what that you can customize for any
we have to offer. So, this led to me missions that you can fly anywhere
going back to Europe in 2017or so and around the world. So, we started
set up a company in the Netherlands. identifying a lot of these suppliers that
And one of the missions that we took are out here in India. And I'm happy to
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