Digantara: A New Era in Space Surveillance for India
Digantara, a Bengaluru-based space-tech startup, is leading India’s first private Space Situational Awareness initiative. The company aims to monitor, track, and manage the complex and hazardous environment of space. Digantara’s solution is a seamless, space-based surveillance network that offers continuous, high-resolution data on everything that moves in orbit. The company has successfully launched its first space situational payload on ISRO’s PSLV-C55 mission in 2023 and launched Space-MAP, India’s first commercial Space Mission Assurance Platform in 2024.
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- Digantara
- Funding
- Global insights
- History
- Indigenous capability
- Infrastructure
- Innovation
- ISRO
- Management
- Mission Assurance Platform
- Monitoring network
- Partnerships
- PSLV-C55
- Real-time
- Satellites
- Space
- Space debris
- Space-MAP
- SSA payload
- Surveillance
- Tracking
- Weather-independent
Aadyah Aerospace: India Self-Reliance in Space & Defense Engineering
Aadyah Aerospace, founded by Shaju Stephen in 2016, is a leading player in India’s aerospace and defense engineering sector. The company specializes in high-reliability satellite components, unmanned aerial systems, and advanced launch-support hardware. Under Stephen’s leadership, Aadyah Aerospace is shaping India’s space ecosystem with innovation and precision engineering. The company has expanded into satellite subsystems, designing lightweight bus structures and deployers to reduce launch costs. Aadyah Aerospace has forged partnerships with public and private sector players to advance indigenous satellite technologies. Under Stephen’s leadership, the company is scaling up to tackle larger projects and accelerating innovation across India’s aerospace ecosystem.
- Aadyah Aerospace
- Aerospace
- Aerospace Ecosystem
- Atmanirbhar Bharat
- Avionics
- Company Formation
- Deep-Space Mission Hardware
- Defense Engineering
- DRDO
- Engineering
- Engineering Innovation
- Future Outlook
- Global Partnerships
- Hardware
- Hyderabad
- Indian Defense Labs
- Indigenous Components
- Innovation
- ISRO
- Key Milestones
- Launch-Support
- Lightweight Satellite Bus
- Make in India.
- Modular Payload Components
- R&D Focus
- Satellite Components
- Self-Reliance
- Shaju Stephen
- Strategic Technologies
- Tactical Surveillance
- Telemetry Systems
- Unmanned Aerial Systems
Dhruva Space: Shaping India’s Future Space Manufacturing
Dhruva Space, a Hyderabad-based startup, is India’s first full-stack private space company, offering satellite platforms, deployment systems, and mission operations for government and commercial clients. Founded by Sanjay Nekkanti, Abhay Egoor, and Narayan Prasad, the company has built out R&D, testing, and integration labs to support small satellite manufacturing. Dhruva Space’s core strength lies in modularity and scalability, with its technology stack including deployers, satellite avionics, structural frames, solar arrays, batteries, and onboard computers. As India aims to capture 9% of the global space economy by 2030, Dhruva Space is positioning itself as a globally competitive satellite systems provider from the Global South.
- Abhay Egoor
- Collaborative
- Commercial Clients
- Commercial Space Launches.
- Commercially Robust
- Deployment Systems
- Dhruva Space
- Global Clients
- Government Clients
- Hyderabad
- Indian Space Sector
- Innovation
- Key Milestones
- Mission Operations
- Modular Deployers
- Narayan Prasad
- PSLV-C53
- Sanjay Nekkanti
- Satellite Bus Platforms
- Satellite Deployers
- Satellite Platforms
- Space Ecosystem
- Space Industry
- Startup
- Startup-Driven
- State-Dominated
- Technology Development
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