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.
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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.
Satellites & Earth observation
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Hanoi nanosatellite developer inside Vingroup, formed in November 2025, with a SpaceX Transporter contract to fly its first satellites in 2027.
Satellites & Earth observation
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.