NewSpace India

There is a growing trend of young individuals in India who are working on the NewSpace agenda with vision and drive, surmounting challenges they meet as they travel through uncharted ‘space.

In India ‘Space’ means Indian Space Research Organisation. However, space activities, especially the upstream ones, could not have been done without the involvement of Indian industry. Globally the technology is highly protected because of its dual use capability. Even if it was not, it would be prohibitively expensive. Thus, beyond a few Nike Apache and M-100 rockets launched from Thumba under the UN auspices, India had to look for solutions within India. This not only included big names like Larsen and Toubro, Walchand Industries and Godrej but countless MSMEs who turned out subsystems for launchers and satellites. Downstream as well, industry supports both satellite communications and remote sensing applications with hardware and software.

Of late this story has a new chapter, NewSpace. NewSpace is a jargon describing the disruption caused by commercialization of space ventures through reusable launchers and small satellites using COTS hardware which results in lowering of costs thus opening the field to many more players other than the government institutions and high net worth individuals. However, downstream, there is much more to NewSpace in terms of innovative technology, commercial applications and capacity building.
 Satsearch

Bellatrix Aerospace

SatSure Limited
Rocketeers
NoPo Nanotechnologies India Private Limited 

BR Aerospace Group

 Society for Space Education, Research and Development

Space Generation Advisory Committee (SGAC)