Latest edition · Sunday, 18 October 2026 · BengaluruIndependent · Source-led

The space ecosystem

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.

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Organisations

169 organisations · A–Z

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.

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Manufacturing & industry

Luminasic

Luminasic is listed under Space Technology in Startup India and its engineers presented mixed-signal and cryo-cooler-driver research at IEEE ICEE 2025.

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Education & ecosystem

Mahamanav Aerospace and Research Space Exploration

Mahamanav Aerospace, operating as MARS Exploration, appears in ISRO’s Space Tutor directory and publicly runs aerospace, rocket-design, aircraft and UAV programmes; it also documents AS9100/ISO.

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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.

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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.

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Satellites & Earth observation

MegaSat Technologies

MegaSat Technologies provides satellite imagery, RF locating, geospatial intelligence and ground-command solutions; its company profile documents active hiring and an Indian headquarters.

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Propulsion & spacecraft systems

Momentum Space.

Momentum Space is a Hyderabad startup publicly describing propulsion-system manufacturing and R&D for space and defence applications.

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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.

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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.

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Satellites & Earth observation

Nibe Space

Nibe Space is a Nibe Limited subsidiary authorised by IN-SPACe as a satellite-data disseminator and involved in Earth-observation constellation plans.

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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.

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Launch

Onnes Cryogenics

Active cryogenics legal entity found, but no independently verifiable space-specific product or material activity was located.

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Manufacturing & industry

Onnes Ruskiv Cryogenics

Active cryogenics legal entity found, but no independently verifiable space-specific product or material activity was located.

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Manufacturing & industry

Optimized Solutions Ltd

Optimized Solutions is an Ahmedabad strategic-electronics company with documented Indian space work and a reported 2026 Poonawalla investment.

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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.

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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.

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Communications & ground segment

OXG Space

OXG Space is a Bengaluru company developing satellite connectivity and in-orbit computing infrastructure for Earth-observation data.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Communications & ground segment

Pramatra Space Technology

Pramatra is an Indian space-technology startup selected as an IIT Hyderabad space-security finalist for ultra-secure quantum encryption keys.

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Manufacturing & industry

PTC Industries

Lucknow manufacturer of precision metal components with documented Indian rocket activity and a reported ISRO titanium-materials order.

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Communications & ground segment

Qosmic Satellite Systems

Qosmic is an India-based space-communications startup. Public posts describe an Amity MoU for an optical ground station and quantum/space optical communications.

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