Science Desk
Science Desk commissions, verifies, and maintains reporting assigned to that desk.
The newsroom
About & Editorial Standards
Space Exploration .IN is an independent, English-language publication based in Bengaluru. We report with an India-first lens while following missions, science, launch, industry, and policy wherever the evidence leads.
Source-led reporting
Stories begin with primary material whenever it is available: agency releases, mission documents, parliamentary records, papers, datasets, filings, and direct public statements. Each article keeps a visible reporting trail so readers can inspect the sources behind the account.
We distinguish what a source establishes from interpretation, uncertainty, company claims, and questions that remain open. Headlines and decks follow the same standard as the body.
Editorial desks
Desk bylines identify the accountable editorial team. They do not invent a person where no named individual author is part of the published record.
Launch Desk
Launch Desk commissions, verifies, and maintains reporting assigned to that desk.
Mission Desk
Mission Desk commissions, verifies, and maintains reporting assigned to that desk.
International Desk
International Desk commissions, verifies, and maintains reporting assigned to that desk.
Industry Desk
Industry Desk commissions, verifies, and maintains reporting assigned to that desk.
Policy Desk
Policy Desk commissions, verifies, and maintains reporting assigned to that desk.
Dossier Desk
Dossier Desk commissions, verifies, and maintains reporting assigned to that desk.
Images and illustrations
Documentary images depict real people, hardware, places, documents, or observations and retain source context. Conceptual or editorial illustrations explain an idea; captions identify them plainly and must not imply that generated artwork is an observation, event photograph, instrument photograph, or other documentary record.
Corrections and substantive updates
Send a specific correction request to editor@spaceexploration.in with the article title, URL, and the detail you believe is wrong. Confirmed errors are corrected in the article.
When a published article changes substantively, it carries an exact modified timestamp and a visible note describing what changed. Minor typography or formatting fixes do not create a substantive update note.
Publication dates
Legacy stories may carry a truthful calendar date because no reliable publication time was retained. We do not invent a time for those records. New timestamped records include an explicit timezone, and visible dates, feeds, sitemaps, and structured data preserve the same underlying value.