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

Propulsion & spacecraft systems

Spacefields

Bengaluru propulsion company supported by Indian government programmes and IISc, developing solid propulsion, pyrotechnics and dual-use aerospace systems.

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Manufacturing & industry

Spaceman Craft

Recognised startup legal listing found, but no independently verifiable space product, mission or material activity was located.

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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.

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Launch

SpanTrik

SpanTrik develops reusable rocket and propulsion technology; its site documents solid-motor tests and high-powered rocket launches, and it exhibited at Aero India.

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Satellites & Earth observation

Spatial Sense Analytics

Spatial Sense Analytics uses satellite and Earth-observation data with AI for geospatial risk and disaster monitoring; IIT Madras incubation records its activity.

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Satellites & Earth observation

SpectraGaze Systems

SpectraGaze develops remote-sensing payloads and imaging systems for GEO, LEO and CubeSat platforms, with documented hyperspectral, multispectral and thermal sensing work.

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Satellites & Earth observation

Spire Global

Spire Global provides satellite observations and space services, including radio-occultation weather data purchased by NOAA.

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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.

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Launch

Synodic Space Labs

Synodic Space Labs develops sustainable reusable multistage launch vehicles and eco-friendly propulsion; its site documents solid, hybrid and nuclear-thermal propulsion activity.

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Satellites & Earth observation

TakeMe2Space

Hyderabad orbital-computing startup; its MOI-1A reached orbit on Transporter-18 aboard a transfer vehicle, with independent deployment and operations still pending.

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Manufacturing & industry

Taramandal

Taramandal develops a reusable orbital vehicle and sustainable satellite subsystems for debris-free operations and in-space manufacturing; SIA-India and IIT Hyderabad document its work and.

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Satellites & Earth observation

TelePIX

South Korean satellite hardware and software company offering optical payloads and onboard AI processing, with a SkyServe service contract.

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Manufacturing & industry

ThinkMetal

Chennai metal-manufacturing company whose investor identifies space applications among the sectors served by its precision-production technology.

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Launch

Thrustworks Dynetics

Thrustworks Dynetics develops propulsion and rocketry technology and was selected for the AWS Space Accelerator: India.

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Satellites & Earth observation

TriNav SpaceTech

Trinav SpaceTech is a Tamil Nadu space-technology startup developing satellite-data remote sensing, Earth observation, geospatial mapping and navigation solutions.

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Propulsion & spacecraft systems

Trishulopulsion Technology

Trishulopulsion Technology received an Oil India startup grant and is recorded by IIT Delhi as having demonstrated a space-propulsion prototype in an operational environment.

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Launch

United Launch Alliance

American launch-services company formed from Boeing and Lockheed Martin’s rocket businesses, whose Vulcan carried Peregrine and national-security payloads.

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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.

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Satellites & Earth observation

Vake

Vake is a Norwegian satellite analytics company using machine learning and satellite imagery to detect, identify and track vessels.

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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.

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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.

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Launch

Virgin Galactic

U.S. aerospace company developing air-launched suborbital vehicles for private passengers and research, following the end of VSS Unity commercial flights.

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Launch

Vrisva Space

Vrisva Space is a Bengaluru rocket company developing single-stage-to-orbit vehicles, avionics, propulsion and related commercial aerospace products.

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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.

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