(October 13, 2022) About 15 minutes into our conversation, Dr. Ravi Margasahayam told me that he once had a chance meeting with mountaineer Tenzing Norgay, who taught him a very important lesson – something he still lives by. “It was 1973, I was in...
(January 24, 2022) Space missions like Chandrayaan, Mangalyaan, PSLV have catapulted India into the league of top space tech countries in the world, and this continuous evolution is driving more space tech startups to take the lead. With global space market size being...
(September 8, 2021) Back in 1963 cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova made history by becoming the first woman in space aboard Soviet Union’s Vostok 6 spacecraft. By 1997 it was Indian-origin astronaut Kalpana Chawla’s turn to script history by becoming the first...
They dare to go where others only dream of. Launching a startup is no mean feat; more so when it is a space tech startup, which was until recently, a little-known industry. From dealing with investors who largely wanted to educate themselves on the subject rather than...
As a child, Srinath Ravichandran was obsessed with all things space. Every time ISRO launched a rocket, the Chennai boy would be glued to his television set devouring all the footage Doordarshan would afford its viewers. Little did he know that one day he would...