{"id":204546,"date":"2025-12-26T07:15:21","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T07:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/204546\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T07:15:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T07:15:21","slug":"indigenous-startup-digantara-ventures-into-tracking-missiles-from-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/204546\/","title":{"rendered":"Indigenous startup Digantara ventures into tracking missiles from space"},"content":{"rendered":"

Digantara<\/a>, which specialises in monitoring space debris<\/a>, has ventured into the domain of tracking missiles using satellites, citing greater interest from governments across the world for such information.<\/p>\n

Space debris and traffic monitoring has emerged as a key segment of the global space economy as companies launch more satellites in low Earth orbit for high-speed internet and Earth observation applications.<\/p>\n

“We were tracking fast-moving space objects. So, with that experience and lessons that we learnt there, we will use the same architecture to work on missile tracking<\/a> and detection from space,” Anirudh Sharma, co-founder and CEO of Digantara Industries, told PTI.<\/p>\n

The company operates ‘SCOT’, a commercial space-surveillance satellite launched in January 2025, and plans to put 15 more such satellites in orbit in 2026-27 to boost its space monitoring capabilities.<\/p>\n

Digantara also plans to launch two Albatross satellites in 2026-27, dedicated to early missile warning and precision tracking and ‘Skygate’, an expanding network of ground-based sensors that enables persistent observation across the critical theatres of operations.<\/p>\n

Its integrated infrastructure, ‘AIRA’, unites advanced hardware, data and processing capabilities across space and ground systems to create a multidomain surveillance capability.<\/p>\n

Through the fusion of these systems within AIRA’s space-and-ground construct, Digantara achieves near real-time acquisition, characterisation and interpretation of emerging threats.<\/p>\n

The Bengaluru-based startup has started operations in the US with a focus on building larger satellites and spacecraft in the 100-kg class tailored to American defence needs, such as missile tracking.<\/p>\n

“Now, missile-related activities also serve smaller markets like Singapore, Thailand, and even Australia. But for the US, you need a US dedicated office and team just to be eligible to get a contract from the US Department of Defence,” Sharma said, underlining the need for starting the US office in Colorado Springs.<\/p>\n

Last week, Digantara announced that it has raised USD 50 million in a funding round to finance its new ventures. PTI<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Digantara, which specialises in monitoring space debris, has ventured into the domain of tracking missiles using satellites, citing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204547,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[114849,114850,111503,85,46,108340,114848,141,145,17170],"class_list":["post-204546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-aira-integrated-infrastructure","tag-bengaluru-startup","tag-digantara","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-missile-tracking","tag-satellite-monitoring","tag-science","tag-space","tag-space-debris"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}