Manastu Space: Clean Propulsion Tech for Sustainable Orbit #2
Manastu Space, a Mumbai-based startup, is focusing on sustainability and cost-efficiency in satellite propulsion. The company replaces toxic hydrazine with a less toxic monopropellant, enhancing safety and fuel efficiency. The company is also developing in-orbit refueling technology, which could revolutionize satellite lifespan and servicing. Manastu Space has secured funding from BIRAC, ISRO, and venture funds and plans to enter full-scale commercial deployment by 2025. The startup aims to become a leading supplier of propulsion modules for small satellite constellations.
- Aerospace testing
- Ashtesh Kumar
- BIRAC funding
- Clean propulsion
- Commercial satellites
- Deorbiting maneuvers
- Fuel efficiency
- Green propulsion
- Hydrazine alternative
- IIT Bombay
- In-orbit refueling
- ISRO Collaboration
- Low-Earth orbit
- Manastu Space
- Monopropellant
- NewSpace startups.
- Propulsion modules
- Satellite Servicing
- Satellite technology
- Small satellite constellations
- Space debris
- Specific impulse
- Station-keeping
- Sustainable orbit
- Tushar Jadhav
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.
- Analytics
- Company
- Coverage
- 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