Analysis-India's space strategy: harness data and tiny satellites to capture market beyond SpaceX

India has a plan to carve out a beachhead in the battle for commercial space, officials say: crunching space data, building small satellites and launching them cheaply into orbit rather than challenging heavyweights such as SpaceX head-on. At stake is a launch market worth $14.54 billion by 2031, and a related data services market pegged at $45 billion by 2030. "The world has gone from satellites the size of a Boeing plane to the size of a laptop," said AK Bhatt, director general of the Indian Space Association, an industry body.