Moon Money and Orbital Ambitions: India's Space Startups Are Chasing Contracts That Were Once NASA's Turf
India's commercial space sector has gone from a government-only club to a full-blown startup ecosystem in under five years — and US investors are pouring in. With Chandrayaan-3 still fresh in the global memory, a generation of Indian founders is now pitching for satellite constellations, debris cleanup, and lunar mapping contracts that would've seemed far-fetched just a decade ago. We went deep on the story.