This Bengaluru Startup is Building the World’s First Fully Reusable Medium-Lift Rocket

For decades, satellite launch services in India and worldwide have been dominated by a handful of government-run agencies. Most of global orbital launches have reportedly been funnelled through one country and executed by one company, leading to an increasingly centralised space industry. As global space ambitions and geopolitical dynamics shift, India’s need for indigenous, affordable, and reusable launch technology is more urgent than ever. Against this backdrop, the space launch market has bifurcated into three categories—small-lift rockets for tiny payloads, medium-lift and heavy-lift vehicles reserved for the biggest, costliest missions.  Medium-lift rockets—capable of launching four to 25 tonnes—represent the ideal middle ground for commercial and government payloads a