Digantara Shifts To Missile Detection

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Digantara announced that it's pivoting from space debris tracking to missile detection. The Indian startup launched its first commercial surveillance satellite called SCOT in January 2025 and now plans to launch 15 more satellites by 2026-27 specifically for tracking missiles and early warning systems.

CEO Anirudh Sharma explained the logic behind this. The company's expertise came from monitoring fast moving space objects in low Earth orbit. That same architecture and sensor capability translates directly to missile detection. It's not a leap so much as a repurposing of existing infrastructure.

Digantara said multiple governments are interested in space based missile tracking. The fact that a two year old Indian startup is in conversations with nation states about this capability shows the importance. The technology that was once purely in the domain of state actors like ISRO is now becoming available from private companies.

Digantara plans to launch something called Skygate, a network of ground based sensors that works in tandem with the satellites. They're also building AIRA, which they describe as an integrated infrastructure linking space and ground systems for what they call multidomain surveillance capability.