Agencies & public sector
Antrix Corporation
ISRO's commercial arm since 1992, its revenue down to ₹165.1 crore in the year to March 2025, and still fighting Devas award enforcement in US and Dutch courts.
Company directory
Indian space companies and agencies
Profiles of the organisations shaping spaceflight from India — agencies, launch companies, satellite builders and their suppliers — plus the international players our reporting covers, each linked to our coverage.
Agencies & public sector
Agencies & public sector
Department of Space
India's cabinet department for space, answering to the Prime Minister and running ISRO, IN-SPACe, NSIL and PRL on ₹13,705.63 crore for 2026-27.
Agencies & public sector
IN-SPACe
Single-window regulator under India's Department of Space that authorises and promotes private space activity — 113 authorisations issued to 52 companies by August 2026.
Agencies & public sector
ISRO
India's national space agency under the Department of Space — flying PSLV, GSLV, LVM3 and SSLV, and running the Chandrayaan, Aditya-L1 and Gaganyaan programmes from Bengaluru.
Agencies & public sector
JAXA
Japan's national space agency, formed in 2003 from three merged bodies; it flies the H3 rocket from Tanegashima and runs the HTV-X, MICHIBIKI and MMX programmes.
Agencies & public sector
NASA
The United States government's civil space agency — flying the Artemis Moon programme, operating the International Space Station, and partnering with ISRO on the NISAR radar satellite.
Agencies & public sector
NewSpace India Limited
ISRO's commercial arm, a Department of Space PSU incorporated in 2019 that sells PSLV, SSLV and LVM3 launches and reported ₹3,026.09 crore revenue in FY25.
Agencies & public sector
Physical Research Laboratory
Ahmedabad research laboratory of India's Department of Space, founded by Vikram Sarabhai in 1947, that builds instruments for the country's lunar, solar and planetary missions.
Agencies & public sector
United States Space Force
The sixth branch of the United States armed forces, stood up in December 2019 to run military satellites, missile warning, GPS and national security launch.
Launch
Launch
Agnikul Cosmos
Chennai launch startup that flew the world's first single-piece 3D-printed rocket engine in May 2024; its Agnibaan orbital debut is now scheduled for 2027.
Launch
Astrobase Space Technologies
Bengaluru startup founded in 2024 building EVEREST, an 800 kN full-flow staged combustion methalox engine unveiled in August 2026 with no full-scale firing or flight yet.
Launch
Blue Origin
Jeff Bezos's space company, builder of New Glenn and the Blue Moon landers; New Glenn has been grounded since a 28 May 2026 pad explosion and New Shepard is paused.
Launch
EtherealX
Bengaluru startup, incorporated as Ethereal Exploration Guild, developing the fully reusable Razor Crest Mk-1; nothing has flown, and its demonstration flight now targets 2027.
Launch
LandSpace
Beijing methalox launch company: first to put a methane-fuelled rocket in orbit in 2023, first to land a Chinese orbital-class booster in 2026, now filing for a 7.5 billion yuan Shanghai IPO.
Launch
Othisis Systems
Bengaluru startup building a reusable landing rocket; it hot-fired a 3D-printed 5 kN liquid-oxygen and methane cryogenic engine in August 2026 after three failed ignitions.
Launch
Rocket Lab
Nasdaq-listed launch and space systems company in Long Beach whose Electron rocket flies small satellites, with the partly reusable Neutron aiming at a late 2026 debut.
Launch
Skyroot Aerospace
Hyderabad launch company whose Vikram-1 rocket made India's first private orbital flight in July 2026, after raising about $160 million including a $60 million unicorn round.
Launch
SpaceX
Musk-founded launch company: 691 Falcon flights to 16 August 2026, 12 million Starlink customers, Starship in flight test and a $1.77 trillion Nasdaq debut.
Satellites & Earth observation
Satellites & Earth observation
Azista BST Aerospace
Indo-German joint venture that built India's first privately made 80 kg imaging satellite in 2023 and now markets satellite mass manufacturing under the Azista Space brand.
Satellites & Earth observation
Dhruva Space
Hyderabad full-stack satellite maker that lost its entire Polar Access-1 stack in the PSLV-C62 failure of January 2026, four months before a ₹105 crore state grant.
Satellites & Earth observation
Digantara
Bengaluru company that tracks objects in orbit for governments; its SCOT satellite reached space in January 2025, and a $50 million Series B valued it at $200 million.
Satellites & Earth observation
GalaxEye Space
Bengaluru multi-sensor Earth-observation company whose OptoSAR satellite Drishti reached orbit on 3 May 2026 and fell silent weeks later after a geomagnetic storm.
Satellites & Earth observation
Grahaa Space
Bengaluru nanosatellite company streaming near-real-time Earth-observation video; its SOLARAS demonstrator flew on Vikram-1 after a first satellite was lost in a 2025 launch failure.
Satellites & Earth observation
KaleidEO
Bengaluru subsidiary of SatSure that designs optical and multispectral imaging payloads and a four-satellite constellation with onboard edge computing, targeted for 2026.
Satellites & Earth observation
Maxar
Earth-imaging and satellite manufacturing group whose name was retired in October 2025, when its two halves became Vantor and Lanteris Space Systems.
Satellites & Earth observation
PierSight Space
Ahmedabad company building a planned 32-satellite SAR and AIS maritime constellation; its Varuna demonstrator flew on ISRO's POEM-4 platform in December 2024.
Satellites & Earth observation
Pixxel
Bengaluru hyperspectral Earth-observation company flying six Firefly satellites and leading the ₹1,200 crore consortium building India's national EO constellation.
Satellites & Earth observation
SatSure
Bengaluru company that turns satellite imagery into farm-credit and infrastructure decisions, and is building its own optical constellation through subsidiary KaleidEO.
Satellites & Earth observation
Suhora Technologies
Noida geospatial analytics firm that owns no satellites but tasks more than 250 of them through SPADE, its subscription platform for radar, optical, thermal and hyperspectral data.
Satellites & Earth observation
TakeMe2Space
Hyderabad startup renting in-orbit AI compute by the minute; its first satellite, MOI-1, was lost in the PSLV-C62 failure of January 2026 and is being reflown on a Falcon 9.
Satellites & Earth observation
VinSpace
Hanoi nanosatellite developer inside Vingroup, formed in November 2025, with a SpaceX Transporter contract to fly its first satellites in 2027.
Satellites & Earth observation
XDLINX Space Labs
Hyderabad smallsat maker whose Elevation-1 carried what Almagest calls the first miniaturised E-band payload to orbit in January 2025; it raised $7 million in October 2024.
Communications & ground segment
Communications & ground segment
Astrome Technologies
Bengaluru maker of GigaMesh E-band backhaul radios, supplying the Indian Army; it raised $10 million in January 2025 and won an IN-SPACe satellite-bus contract in February 2026.
Communications & ground segment
Globalstar
Covington, Louisiana satellite operator behind Apple's Emergency SOS service, building the 48-satellite C-3 network and agreed in 2026 to be acquired by Amazon.
Communications & ground segment
Viasat
Carlsbad satellite operator that bought Inmarsat in 2023 and completed its three-satellite ViaSat-3 constellation in 2026, on fiscal 2026 revenue of $4.6 billion.
Propulsion & spacecraft systems
Propulsion & spacecraft systems
Bellatrix Aerospace
Bengaluru propulsion maker whose Arka electric and Rudra green thrusters were space-qualified on ISRO missions; it raised $20 million in a pre-Series B round in March 2026.
Propulsion & spacecraft systems
Manastu Space
Navi Mumbai maker of MS289 hydrogen-peroxide thrusters; its Vyom 2U fired on ISRO's POEM-4 platform from 31 December 2024. Inc42 puts total funding at $9.00 million.
Propulsion & spacecraft systems
OrbitAID Aerospace
Chennai company building the SIDRP satellite docking-and-refuelling port; its first satellite, AayulSAT, was lost when ISRO's PSLV-C62 failed on 12 January 2026.
Manufacturing & industry
Manufacturing & industry
Alpha Design Technologies
Bengaluru defence-electronics maker held as a subsidiary by Adani Defence since 2018, whose consortium assembled ISRO's IRNSS-1H, IRNSS-1I and EOS-04 satellites.
Manufacturing & industry
Ananth Technologies
Hyderabad electronics maker reported as the first private firm to hand ISRO fully integrated satellites, and authorised to sell geostationary broadband from 2028.
Manufacturing & industry
Centum Electronics
Bengaluru electronics maker that says its parts have flown on satellites since 2002 and counts ISRO among its customers; its French and Canadian subsidiaries were wound up in 2026.
Manufacturing & industry
Godrej Aerospace
Mumbai manufacturer of ISRO's Vikas engines and CE20 thrust chambers, which delivered the first human-rated L110 stage engine for Gaganyaan in November 2025.
Manufacturing & industry
Hindustan Aeronautics Limited
India's state-owned aerospace maker, licensed since 2025 to build and sell ISRO's SSLV and, with L&T, producer of the first industry-built PSLV.
Manufacturing & industry
Larsen & Toubro
Mumbai engineering group and one of ISRO's oldest industrial suppliers — booster segments, umbilical plates and tracking radar, and half of the HAL–L&T PSLV consortium.
Manufacturing & industry
Lockheed Martin
American aerospace manufacturer that reported Space segment sales of $13.029 billion for 2025 and whose Orion capsule flew NASA's Artemis II crew around the Moon in April 2026.
Manufacturing & industry
Northrop Grumman
NYSE-listed defence contractor whose Space Systems sector builds the Cygnus station freighter, solid rocket motors and the James Webb Space Telescope's spacecraft bus.
Manufacturing & industry
Paras Defence and Space Technologies
Navi Mumbai optics and optronics company supplying ISRO and DRDO; it reported FY26 revenue of Rs 476.57 crore and a closing order book of Rs 986 crore.
Manufacturing & industry
Walchandnagar Industries
Pune heavy-engineering company that has supplied ISRO booster casings and segments since the SLV-3 in 1973, and cut its net loss to Rs 14.68 crore in FY26.
In-space services & exploration
In-space services & exploration
InspeCity
Thane satellite-servicing startup developing the VEDA life-extension vehicle; it raised a $5.6 million seed round in May 2025 and plans a VEDA demonstration mission in 2027.
In-space services & exploration
Intuitive Machines
Houston lander builder turned space infrastructure prime: two Nova-C Moon landings that both tipped over, a NASA relay contract capped at $4.82 billion, and an $800 million satellite acquisition.
In-space services & exploration
Serendipity Space
Bhubaneswar startup building re-entry satellites to crystallise drugs in orbit; its Alchemy factory module flew a stratospheric balloon test in March 2026.
Education & ecosystem
Education & ecosystem
Indian Space Association
Apex industry body of India's space and satellite firms, launched in October 2021 and led by Lt Gen A K Bhatt; it lobbies on spectrum, tax and defence-space policy.