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SPACE EXPLORATION.INअंतरिक्ष · India’s space journalIndia-firstSource-led · English edition
The space ecosystem
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.
Propulsion & spacecraft systems
Acceleron has a matching aerospace website and legal-name footer, but the audit found insufficient independently verifiable material space output to qualify it beyond an unresolved lead.
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Manufacturing & industry
AEROSAPIEN publicly describes aerospace structural-parts manufacturing and UAV/autopilot research, with active company updates and aerospace engineering hiring.
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Manufacturing & industry
Akshath Aerospace is an active Indian aerospace R&D company; public records identify its aerospace activity and NIRF documentation reports an actual system proven under its recognised startup project.
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Manufacturing & industry
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.
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Agencies & public sector
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.
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Launch
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.
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Communications & ground segment
Astrogate Labs is a Bengaluru-based developer of satellite laser communication terminals, including the AstroLink terminal family.
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Communications & ground segment
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.
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Propulsion & spacecraft systems
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.
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Manufacturing & industry
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.
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Manufacturing & industry
Cryptik is a Bengaluru startup building satellite collision-avoidance and space-situational-awareness software; its public portfolio and recruitment activity show an active space product effort.
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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.
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Manufacturing & industry
Ducom Aerospace is an active Bengaluru manufacturer; Karnataka government records describe a project to design, manufacture, assemble and test equipment for space, aviation and defence applications.
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Manufacturing & industry
Enlivening Technologies provides aerospace and defence engineering services and RF-system development; a CMRIT MoU documents ongoing aerospace research and product-development collaboration.
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Launch
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.
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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.
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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.
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Communications & ground segment
Bengaluru company completed an IISc NIDHI-PRAYAS project for an ultra-compact deployable space communication antenna.
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Manufacturing & industry
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.
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Manufacturing & industry
IspaceI is a Bengaluru nonprofit focused on space STEM, satellite development and payload testing; its public profile documents the 75 Students Satellite Mission and active space communications.
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Agencies & public sector
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.
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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.
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Satellites & Earth observation
Bengaluru space-infrastructure company building a planned six-satellite ISR constellation after a reported $8 million seed round.
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Manufacturing & industry
KR Aerospace Systems provides satellite design, space-qualified components and aerospace-electronics consulting; its site describes a CubeSat mission and a 2024 space-electronics workshop is.
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