India's Private Space Sector

India's space-sector reforms handed private firms a real runway, and in 2026 the ecosystem around IN-SPACe is visibly coming of age. A privately led consortium is building the country's first national imaging constellation, a start-up has flown the world's first combined optical-radar satellite, and another team is readying an orbital data-centre demo, even as a rare PSLV failure early in the year was a blunt reminder that the engineering is still unforgiving. This card gathers the moving pieces.