Meet the IIT Bombay professor who wants to build cities in space
Co-founded by Arindrajit Chowdhury and Tausif Shaikh, both from IIT Bombay, startup InspeCity's has a lofty dream of taking humanity to the stars
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Co-founded by Arindrajit Chowdhury and Tausif Shaikh, both from IIT Bombay, startup InspeCity's has a lofty dream of taking humanity to the stars
Unlike the Cold War of the 1960s, which was led by national space programs as the US and the Soviet Union competed neck to neck for space flight supremacy, a new race to space has begun in our own age, wherein startups are playing a key role
According to estimates, the demand for high-speed internet delivered from space has made launching satellites into orbit a lucrative business. The space economy is projected to grow to $600 billion from $447 billion in 2020 by 2025.
Within a week of the launch of the country’s first privately built rocket, the Vikram-S, it’s now the turn of satellites of two other startups, Pixxel and Dhruva, to get deployed in the Earth’s orbit on Saturday. But this might just be the beginning.
The former managing director of automaker Mahindra & Mahindra is keen to get venture and private equity firms to seriously look at more of the country’s spacetech newbies.