Tag: Ideas

  • Space InvITs?

    Financial influencer Sharan Hegde’s newsletter today introduced me to the concept of Infrastructure Investment Trusts (InvITs). In his words, InvITs are:

    Infrastructure Investment Trusts (InvITs) offer you partial ownership in infrastructure projects.
     

    They are trusts that hold, manage, and make investments in both finished and ongoing infrastructure projects.
     

    These trusts provide income through dividends, interest, and capital gains.

    The infrastructure projects include telephone towers, electricity distribution networks, public roads, highways etc.

    Sharan Hegde, REITs vs InvITs (newsletter dated 3 November 2023)

    I wondered how this could be applied to the space sector in India.

    I think these could be easily used to build launch pads, wind tunnel testing infrastructure, generic (which can be used by a large group of space companies) clean rooms, etc. Maybe they can be used to build satellites as well?

  • Communicating my ideas

    Note: I wrote this on my earlier blog hosted as https://blogs.seds.org/pradeep. I recovered the text from the WayBack Machine. This post appeared on June 25, 2007 as per the timestamp. I’m trying to collect here again all my old writings spread on various blogs.

    One of the things that I learnt at the meeting at ISRO Bangalore is how I lack the idea of communicating what I am doing to a group of people who may or may not know about space. In the end, it all comes down to communication.

    The bad part is I get only one chance.

    A guy to whom I tried to explain what being in SEDS entailed and who was not interested in it is not likely to listen to me a second time when I know a bit more and have a clearer picture of what I am saying than when I said it before. He’s already created a block against space thinking of it as very murky water. All thanks to me =(

    That has not happened yet and I hope it never will. It is one of the worries that a person who is trying to start a SEDS chapter might face. Startup fear?

    I am thinking about this and I am also simultaneously trying to solve this problem. But, my solving this problem won’t help others besides people in India since every country has a different outlook on space. India uses space as a means of self-reliance and telecommunications. We don’t want to rely on NASA pictures all the time :).