India's private space sector skyrockets

By Agence France-Presse

Oct 02, 2023 12:23 am

PARIS: When Indian entrepreneur Awais Ahmed founded his satellite startup in Bangalore in 2019, his country was still a year away from opening the space industry to the private sector.

'When we started, there was absolutely no support, no momentum,' said Ahmed, who was 21 when he founded Pixxel, a company deploying a constellation of Earth imaging satellites.

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