Digantara
Digantara (headquartered in Bengaluru) is India’s first private Space Situational Awareness (SSA) company. It is building a space-based monitoring system to track orbital debris and active satellites in real time. Digantara’s proprietary SSA platform combines ground-based sensors with on-orbit data from its own “SCOT” (Space–Camera for Object Tracking) satellites. In June 2023, Digantara launched Pushan Alpha, one of the world’s first commercial space surveillance satellites, to demonstrate tracking of objects as small as 5 cm in Low Earth Orbit. This data will feed into “Orbit X” – a situational awareness platform (often dubbed a “Google Maps for space”) to help satellite operators avoid collisions and manage space traffic.
Space-MAP (Mission Assurance Platform): Digantara’s end-to-end SSA solution providing conjunction analysis, collision alerts, and orbital analytics to satellite operators. It leverages SCOT satellites in sun-synchronous orbit for all-weather, all-time tracking capabilities (unaffected by day/night or clouds). Digantara also offers data services to defense and regulatory agencies for space object cataloguing. The first SCOT 0 satellite launched in 2023 is a 25 kg sensor prototype ; the company plans a constellation of orbit surveillance microsats to extend coverage.
Meet the Team
Founders
Anirudh Sharma (CEO), Rahul Rawat (COO), and Tanveer Ahmed (CTO) founded Digantara as undergraduate students in 2018. They were inspired to address the growing space debris problem. Anirudh and Tanveer are computer science grads who lead product and tech, while Rahul (engineering background) manages operations. The trio is in their mid-20s and have already won national awards (e.g. ISRO’s Space Challenge) for Digantara’s innovation.
Other Team Members
Air Vice Marshal S. Chandrasekhar (Retd.) – Head of Strategy, bringing defense domain expertise. Digantara’s board observers include investors from Kalaari Capital. Notably, Digantara was supported by India’s IN-SPACe and IDEX frameworks, and its milestones (like winning an ESA Quantum Computing for SSA award) underscore its global credibility.
