The Rise of India’s Private Space Sector

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Was about to post it elsewhere.

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Director, VSSC visited Space Startups at Bangalore
19 dec 2022
Dr. Unnikrishnan Nair, Director, VSSC visited the facilities of M/s. Bellatrix Aerospace Pvt. Ltd., incubated inside IISc Bangalore. He witnessed the electric propulsion based thruster firing trials and green propulsion testing in high altitude chambers at their facility.
Director, VSSC also visited the facilities of M/s. Digantara, a startup for space surveillance inside IISc Entrepreneurship Centre, Bangalore. Digantara team briefed him about the activities towards establishing a space-based surveillance platform for safeguarding future space operations. He had a discussion with the team on the status of data received from ROBI (ROBust Integrating proton fluence meter) which was flown in the PSLV's Orbital Experimental Platform (POEM) in the PSLV C53 mission on June 30, 2022.

 

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Chennai-based MSME to set up unit at Aero Park

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www.thehindu.com

Chennai-based MSME to set up unit at Aero Park
December 24, 2022 10:04 pm | Updated 10:04 pm IST - CHENNAI


ST Advanced Composites, Chennai-based MSME which made components for UAE’s First Lunar Mission – Rashid Rover will be developing a world class composite manufacturing facility.

“Discussion is going on with Chennai Aero Park, TIDCO regarding the space. We are looking at one acre space. We are going to develop a world class composite manufacturing facility in the Chennai Aero Park,” said Devendran Thirunavukarasu, Director of ST Advanced Composites Pvt Ltd (STAC).

“We are going to manufacture aerospace and defence parts, radome for radar system, defence antennas, satellite structural parts etc,” he said. The firm is looking at an investment of around ₹50 crore into this project.

Incorporated in 2014, the MSME operates out of a facility at Maduravoyal Chennai with a 21- member team headed by Devendran Thirunavukarasu, Founding Director and Tarini Murugesan, Director of STAC. At present, the firm makes Carbon Fiber Reinforced Plastic (CFRP) components for Aerospace and Defence industries. The firm is working with various projects with DRDO and ISRO.

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Skyroot on cover of India Today!

 

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This may have been already been launched today, depending on the time zone

India’s spacetech start-up Digantara to welcome New Year with mapping testbed launch aboard Elon Musk’s rocket

The second launch by an Indian start-up on a reusable Falcon 9 rocket seeks to complement the placing of the company’s ROBI mission launched on the Indian space agency’s workhorse in the first half of 2022.

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^ No, that launch is Tuesday evening, January 3rd. Digantara launched a weather sensor on PSLV C-53 in June last year, this is their second satellite.

 

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Digantara's satellite is launched onboard Space X's Transporter-6 mission

Digantara launches second satellite to monitor space weather

Nagpur, Jan 3 (PTI) Space sector start-up Digantara on Tuesday launched its second satellite Pushan-Alpha as a rideshare onboard SpaceX’s Transporter-6 mission that soared to the low earth orbit from Cape Canaveral in Florida, US. The satellite will serve as a space weather testbed in the sun...

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Eyes on the stars': India's spacetech start-ups get ready for big takeoff

Indian spacetech start-ups: After reporting several successes in 2022, the Indian spacetech sector is looking at entering its next phase of growth

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Some cool insights for India's space startup ecosystem....
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Folks what's the status of agnikul sub orbital launch

 

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Folks what's the status of agnikul sub orbital launch

Yah, it was supposed to go up by the end of March.

 

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Yah, it was supposed to go up by the end of March.

 

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Near at the end of vedio he mentioned hopefully next 30-45 days

 

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Skyroot Aerospace test-fires 3D-printed cryogenic engine for 2024 rocket

Naga Bharath Daka, COO and cofounder of Skyroot, said that the engine will enhance the payload capacity of the company’s Vikram lineup of rockets, which will be used to launch satellites into low-Earth orbits

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Skyroot Aerospace test-fires 3D-printed cryogenic engine for 2024 rocket
2 min read . Updated: 04 Apr 2023, 08:33 PM IST

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The new engine, Dhawan-II, is more powerful than its predecessor, offering 3.5 kilo-Newton (kN) of thrust — in comparison to the 1kN thrust that Dhawan-I can produce.
The new engine, Dhawan-II, is more powerful than its predecessor, offering 3.5 kilo-Newton (kN) of thrust — in comparison to the 1kN thrust that Dhawan-I can produce.
Naga Bharath Daka, COO and cofounder of Skyroot, said that the engine will enhance the payload capacity of the company’s Vikram lineup of rockets, which will be used to launch satellites into low-Earth orbits
Private homegrown space startup, Skyroot Aerospace, on Tuesday announced a successful test-firing of its second fully 3D-printed cryogenic engine, Dhawan-II, for a 200-second duration. This is the second cryogenic rocket that has been successfully test-fired by Skyroot, following the Dhawan-I engine that was tested in November 2021. The engine will feature in a future rendition of the company’s 3D-printed, privately built rockets, the company confirmed in a press statement.


Naga Bharath Daka, chief operating officer and cofounder of Skyroot, said that the engine will enhance the payload capacity of the company’s Vikram lineup of rockets, which will be used to launch satellites into low-Earth orbits.


The new engine, Dhawan-II, is more powerful than its predecessor, offering 3.5 kilo-Newton (kN) of thrust — in comparison to the 1kN thrust that Dhawan-I can produce. While the latter is tipped to be used in Skyroot’s Vikram-I rocket that is scheduled to launch later this year, Dhawan-II will power the company’s second-generation rocket, Vikram-II, which will succeed the Vikram-I.


On March 6, Pawan Kumar Chandana, chief executive of Skyroot, told Mint that the company is looking to conduct multiple commercial launches with Vikram-I, following the commencement of its launch services later this year. “The development of Vikram-II will continue simultaneously," the executive added.

Cryogenic engines are said to be better suited to power long-range and long-duration first stages of a rocket, which in turn can lead to increased range and trajectories of satellite launching rockets. This could be beneficial in giving rockets added versatility in terms of the range of distance that orbits that they can cover.

Skyroot said in a statement that its latest cryogenic engine, Dhawan-II, used two rocket propellants — liquid natural gas (LNG) and liquid oxygen (LOX) that are stored at temperatures of below -150 degrees Celsius. The used fuels are also environmentally friendlier when compared to solid semi-cryogenic rocket fuels, the company claimed.