When the petition came up for hearing, the court today issued notices to the Centre and Space secretary.
Justice D Sheshadri Naidu also directed the respondents to file a counter-affidavit in four weeks.
Nair also challenged the report of high-level team which held him guilty of various ommissions and commissions.
A copy of the report was not available to him even now, it was submitted.
Nair had last year unsuccessfully moved the Central Administrative Tribunal seeking quashing of the Centre's decision. The CAT had held his plea as non-maintainable on the ground that he was not holding a civil post and it had no jurisdiction to entertain his case.
His petition challenging the CAT order was dismissed by the high court later.