Hyderabad: Even as Telangana is eyeing space tech sector as the next pillar of growth, spacetech companies have urged the state govt to develop a dedicated ‘Space City’ to cluster the ecosystem and provide specialised infrastructure for testing, manufacturing and scaling deeptech products.
Pointing out that more than 30% of India’s cutting-edge space-tech companies are from Hyderabad, Sridhar Babu said that the city was moving beyond its services identity into frontier innovation. He cited more than 150 global innovation centres (GICs) established in Telangana over the past 18 months as evidence of the shift. “From constellation missions and spacecraft systems to establishing one of South Asia’s largest manufacturing facility for scaled and indigenous production of satellites of up to 500 kg, we are also helping build a strong talent pool of space scientists in the city while delivering missions for customers globally.
Company founders said Telangana had helped them build rockets, satellites, reusable space systems, orbital data centres, high-altitude platforms, imaging technologies and analytics products for global markets. Babu said the state would work to support specialised infrastructure, advanced manufacturing, talent, research partnerships and collaboration to help firms scale commercially. Dhruva Space co-founder Chaitanya Dora Surapureddy said his company is building in Telangana for the world.
The depth of talent, engineering capability and industrial ecosystem in Telangana gives us the confidence to think bigger and build at scale.”