Indian space fracas

摘要

The former chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) in Bangalore and three of his former ISRO colleagues have been barred from holding any government job. Gopalan Madhavan Nair was sanctioned after an investigation into a satellite deal between Antrix, the ISRO's commercial arm, and Bangalore-based telecommunications company, Devas Multimedia. The 2005 rndeal was well below market value, and the government scrapped it in February 2011. Nair and others deny wrongdoing; Nair blames his troubles on his successor at the ISRO, Koppilli Radhakrishnan. See go.nature.com/wl5avm for more.