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Digantara is on a mission to make space
sustainable
Digantara, a space tech the co-founder and CTO, said,
start-up, is developing a two- “We started Digantara in our
pronged system to address the college days with the aim of
difficulties of space operations making space maps. That time,
and situational awareness with it was a student project but after
a mission to build a sustainable graduating from college, we
space to simplify operations decided to give Digantara the
for space stakeholders. Our shape of a company." Digantara
Doordarshan team talked to launched their first mission on
th
the co-founders of the start-up 30 June, 2022 on PSLV-C53. It
Anirudh Sharma and Tanveer is the world’s first commercial
Ahmed. mission to measure and map
space weather.
“Digantara is an Indian space tech
start-up developing solutions for Talking about their mention in
space traffic management and ‘Mann ki Baat’, he said, “It is quite
space situational awareness. In encouraging that we are getting
simpler terms, we are building support from the Government
maps to/through space. We and ISRO. The Prime Minister
simplify the space operations, be was quite interested in the
it anyone in the space industry— solutions that we are developing
launch companies, satellite and he did give us a challenge
operators. We provide data sets about solving the issue of space
to them from the data that we debris removal.” To this Tanveer
get from our satellites,” Anirudh added, "In that direction, we have
Sharma, co-founder and CEO of taken the first step by launching
Digantara, said. ROBI (ROBust Integrating proton
fluence meter), a space weather
Tanveer Ahmed,
instrument on PSLV-C53. We
have been able
to successfully
communicate
with the
instrument and
are analysing
the data
that we are
receiving.” ROBI
is the world’s
smallest digital
space weather
Team Digantara with ISRO Chairman S Somanath monitor.
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