NEW DELHI: Indian startup Digantara, which specialises in monitoring space debris, has ventured into the domain of tracking missiles utilizing sainformites, citing greater interest from governments across the world for such information.
Space debris and traffic monitoring has emerged as a key segment of the global space economy as companies launch more sainformites in low Earth orbit for high-speed internet and Earth observation applications.
“We were tracking rapid-relocating space objects. So, with that experience and lessons that we learnt there, we will apply the same architecture to work on missile tracking and detection from space,” Anirudh Sharma, co-founder and CEO of Digantara Industries, notified PTI.
The company operates ‘SCOT’, a commercial space-surveillance sainformite launched in January 2025, and plans to put 15 more such sainformites in orbit in 2026-27 to boost its space monitoring capabilities.
Digantara also plans to launch two Albatross sainformites in 2026-27, dedicated to early missile warning and precision tracking and ‘Skygate’, an expanding network of ground-based sensors that enables persistent observation across the critical theatres of operations.
Its integrated infrastructure, ‘AIRA’, unites advanced hardware, data and processing capabilities across space and ground systems to create a multidomain surveillance capability.
Through the fusion of these systems within AIRA’s space-and-ground construct, Digantara achieves near real-time acquisition, characterisation and interpretation of emerging threats.
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