JANTARStatutory Compliance & Space Governance
Jantar is built to operate within the Indian regulatory framework administered by the Department of Space, IN-SPACe, the Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) and CERT-In, and with regard to the international space liability conventions. This page states our current posture. It is self-attested, has not been independently audited, and does not claim any certification, registration, or authorisation that has not been granted.
IN-SPACe NGE Framework
SKOPAQ AI is an Indian company, registered with IN-SPACe as a Non-Government Entity (NGE) under the Indian Space Policy 2023. Registration is not an authorisation: no IN-SPACe activity authorisation is held or claimed. Jantar operates at Authority Level A0 (Advisory Ground Co-Pilot) with no uplink transmission capability.
IN-SPACe SSA Guidelines (2026)
Mapped to IN:ISP2023:NGP-SSA:2026/V1.0. Applicability per product line is under counsel review; no IN-SPACe authorisation is held or claimed.
DGFT SCOMET Category 7
Dual-use export classification posture, self-assessed. Jantar contains no flight guidance or propulsion control code, transmits nothing, and operates as a commercial ground-segment diagnostic analytics system. A formal classification opinion has not yet been requested.
Platform controls (self-attested)
Designated-RSO Redaction Filter
Under Section B.7 of the SSA Guidelines, the Government of India may designate certain defence and strategic Resident Space Objects (RSOs) that must not be identified, attributed, or disseminated. Jantar implements a designated-object redaction filter: when a designation is registered, references to that object are redacted from investigation reports and outbound notifications, while sanitised internal conjunction-safety computation remains permitted (Section B.7.b). The designation registry is append-only and hash-chained, and ships empty. The filter is self-attested and has not been independently audited.
Annexure-3 EUC Gate
Section B.13 requires recipients of SSA services to execute the End-Use cum End-User Certificate (EUC) prescribed in Annexure-3. Jantar keeps a per-tenant certificate registry that records SHA-256 digests of executed certificates; the registry is append-only and hash-chained and is designed for 3-year retention. Whether the gate refuses work on a spacecraft for a tenant without a valid registered certificate is a deployment setting, off by default. The gate is self-attested and has not yet been independently audited.
Statutory posture matrix (self-attested)
| Statutory Mandate | Government Authority | Regulatory Requirement | Jantar posture (self-attested) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indian Space Policy 2023 | IN-SPACe / Dept of Space | NGE Registration & Activity Authorisation | Registered with IN-SPACe as an Indian NGE; no activity authorisation held or claimed; Level A0 Advisory Co-Pilot posture; no commanding uplink |
| IN:ISP2023:NGP-SSA:2026/V1.0 | IN-SPACe Board | SSA Services & Ground Sensor Norms | Applicability memo in progress; EUC registry and designated-object redaction implemented; 3-year retention designed |
| Foreign Trade Policy (SCOMET) | DGFT / Ministry of Commerce | Category 7 Dual-Use Software Controls | Self-assessed as ground diagnostics only (no propulsion or ballistic code); SCOMET advisory opinion to be requested; GKE, Cloud Storage and BigQuery in Mumbai (asia-south1), with hosted-model reasoning on Vertex AI’s global endpoint, where a request may be processed in any Google Cloud region |
| CERT-In Directions 2022 | CERT-In / MeitY | 6-Hour Incident Reporting & Log Retention | Security contact email designated (named point of contact being confirmed); 180-day log retention target; object-lock roadmapped; clock discipline: provider-managed NTP on the managed Kubernetes cloud deployment; NPL/NIC time sync available for on-premise deployments |
| DoT WPC Saral Sanchar | Wireless Planning & Coordination | Experimental Telemetry Ground SDR Reception | Filing guide prepared, not yet filed; receive-only profile (no transmitter); ground telemetry decommutation only |
| Digital Personal Data Protection Act 2023 | Data Protection Board of India | Telemetry & Operator Data Sovereignty | Applicability under assessment; zero-copy telemetry commitment and post-pilot purge (see DPA §1, §5); per-tenant envelope encryption available as a deployment setting |
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On request we provide the Annexure-3 EUC template, the draft Aerospace DPA, and a written summary of the compliance posture described on this page for licensed constellation operators. Nothing on this page is legal advice or a claim of authorisation.