- Published on October 18, 2023
- In AI Features
Agnikul Looks to Make India A Global Space Hub
The company aims to lower launch costs for small satellites and expand globally through its flexible launchpad
- By Shyam Nandan Upadhyay
Ahead of the suborbital launch of its customisable Agnibaan SOrTeD, Indian aerospace startup Agnikul Cosmos recently raised an additional $26.7 million in Series B. With the successful launch, Agnikul Cosmos will now become India’s only second private space company—following Skyroot, which launched its Vikram-S last year (18th November, 2022).
In an interview with AIM, co-founder of Agnikul, Satyanarayan Chakravarthy, who also happens to be a professor at IIT Madras, revealed that the team of 200+ employees is at the cusp of moving to the launchpad. The company has recreated a static test portion of the launchpad at its new campus and is currently assembling rockets for vertical testing.
“So once we do that, we will actually move the rocket. The plumbing assembly and everythi
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Shyam Nandan Upadhyay
Shyam is a tech journalist with expertise in policy and politics, and exhibits a fervent interest in scrutinising the convergence of AI and analytics in society. In his leisure time, he indulges in anime binges and mountain hikes.
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