Start-ups line up for space glory, but still very far from 'SpaceX moment'

Roughly 70% of these start-ups were launched after 2020; of $245 mn that the sector has received in last seven years, $198 mn came after 2020

In 2017, when Awais Ahmed met SpaceX founder Elon Musk in the US as part of a student project, he never thought one day his start-up would become one of the most talked about spacetech companies in India.
 

Last week, Pixxel, which Ahmed co-founded with Kshitij Khandelwal in their final year at BITS Pilani in 2018, launched a hyperspectral satellite called Anand, the first of its 36-satellite planned constellation. 
 

The success story of the 25-year-old duo is not an isolated case in India’s space sector. There are about half a dozen companies such as Agnikul, Skyroot, Dhruva Space, and Bellatrix