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Private Space Companies in India
Private space companies in India build rockets, satellites and services under the Indian Space Policy 2023, with IN-SPACe as the single-window agency that authorises and promotes them. They are in the news for RDI Fund support: Rs 200 crore to Agnikul Cosmos on 25 September 2026 for a fully reusable Agnibaan rocket, a day after Rs 63.84 crore for a new GalaxEye OptoSAR satellite.
Last updated 28 September 20267 min read
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Adds the Agnibaan RLV's design - a reusable upper stage and a restartable, deep-throttling semi-cryogenic engine - and TDB's place under DST, with every pointer cut to the core.
- IN-SPACe
- Pixxel
- GalaxEye
- Skyroot
- Agnikul
- Sarvam
- PSLV-C62
- Allied Orbits
- RDI Fund
- Agnibaan
- reusable launch vehicle
- OptoSAR
- Technology Development Board
- semi-cryogenic engine
- Dhanush launch pad
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