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He once scored 51 marks in Maths, now owns a space company worth $1.1 billion. Meet 35-year-old rocket man who gave up ISRO jobPawan Kumar Chandana, once a struggling student, now leads Skyroot Aerospace. This company achieved India's first private rocket launch. Ch...
17 Jun, 2026, 12.31 PM IST
UpGrad-Unacademy deal closes; India’s largest private satellite lifts offHappy Monday! Upgrad is set to acquire Unacademy at a 90% markdown of its peak valuation. This and more in today's ETtech Morning Dispatch.
04 May, 2026, 07.41 AM IST
ET 40 under forty: The vanguard leading India into the futureThe ET 40 Under Forty list for 2025 celebrates innovative leaders across India, including pioneers in spacetech, AI, and blockchain. For th...
14 Oct, 2025, 09.59 AM IST
Record funding, policy support drive hiring boom in spacetech sectorIndian startups in the space sector are significantly boosting their hiring efforts as they expand, driven by a funding boom and supportive...
02 Aug, 2024, 11.18 PM IST
Space is capital intensive sector, enabling FDI norms can be transformational: Skyroot CEO“A bare minimum of 49% FDI is what we are looking at. If it can be increased to 74%, it would be an ideal scenario so that we can grow at p...
06 Nov, 2023, 10.14 AM IST
Chandrayaan-3 success sends startup founders and investors over the moonThe excitement was not limited to space technology startups, but felt across the ecosystem. The sentiment was that India’s moon landing emb...
24 Aug, 2023, 11.58 AM IST
India’s Chandrayaan-3 makes historic soft-landing on moonThe Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) Chandrayaan-3 mission successfully put down its lander Vikram on the moon on Wednesday, nea...
23 Aug, 2023, 07.59 PM IST
India's first privately built rocket all set for November 15 launchThe maiden mission, named 'Prarambh' (the beginning) by the space startup, will carry payloads of two Indian and one foreign customers. It ...
11 Nov, 2022, 09.33 PM IST
Aiming for the stars: Startups are charting course for the final frontierThe new focus could help India’s space economy, estimated to be 2% of the $360 billion global market, touch $50 billion by 2025, as envisag...
02 Aug, 2020, 10.42 PM IST