Indian spacetech tracker

The missions.
The money.
The momentum.

A compact watch on India's public and private space programme: launches, Gaganyaan and the capital moving through the ecosystem.

Updated 18 September 2026Monthly edition · 01Sources linked at every item
Line drawing of a launch vehicle rising into orbit
01 / Launch board

What's flying, and what just flew.

Confirmed dates only. Windows are labelled as windows, not promises.

Upcoming · official target
Q4 2026

Gaganyaan G1

Programme budget: ≈ $2.1bn

The first uncrewed experimental mission is targeted for Q4 2026 and is set to fly the Vyommitra half-humanoid. Two further uncrewed missions and the first crewed flight are targeted for 2027.

Budget is the ₹20,193 crore allocation for the full eight-mission programme, not G1 alone; converted at ₹95.889 per US dollar on 18 Sep 2026.

Source: Government of India, Lok Sabha reply ↗

Upcoming · scheduled
Q1 2027

Agnikul orbital mission

Mission cost: not publicly disclosed

Agnikul lists an orbital launch from its private launchpad at SDSC-SHAR, carrying up to 100 kg to low Earth orbit. A second, up-to-300 kg mission is listed for Q2 2027.

Source: Agnikul mission schedule ↗

Recent · successful
04 Sep 2026

GSLV-F17 / EOS-05

Published launch price: ≈ $47m

ISRO's 19th GSLV flight placed EOS-05, India's first imaging satellite from geosynchronous orbit, into its intended sub-geosynchronous transfer orbit.

The $47m figure is the published GSLV Mk II launch price, not a disclosed all-in spacecraft programme budget. Source: Next Spaceflight ↗

Mission source: ISRO mission page ↗

Recent · private first
18 Jul 2026

Skyroot Vikram-I

Mission cost: not publicly disclosed

Vikram-I lifted off from Sriharikota, marking the first orbital launch undertaken by a private Indian company. ISRO says the vehicle completed the mission successfully.

Source: ISRO announcement ↗

02 / Gaganyaan

Countdown to the first uncrewed flight.

Target window: Q4 2026. The live count below runs to the end of the published quarter because ISRO has not announced a launch day.

Target source: Government of India ↗

10 April 2026 · IADT-02

A 5.7-tonne simulated crew module completed the second integrated air-drop test at Sriharikota.

ISRO ↗
7 July 2026 · Main parachute test

The integrated main-parachute air-drop test qualified structural integrity and design margins at the maximum expected load for G1.

ISRO ↗
12 July 2026 · Crew module systems

ISRO reported qualification tests for the up-righting system, flotation system and pyro-system had been completed.

ISRO ↗
Q4 2026 · G1 target

First uncrewed experimental mission, including Vyommitra.

03 / Capital watch

Funding moves worth keeping.

Rounds, not rumours. Amounts are shown in the currency in which they were announced.

September 2026 · Series C
$100m

Pixxel

Capital raised in this round

Temasek and Seraphim led the round. Pixxel says the capital will fund expansion beyond hyperspectral imaging into sensing satellites, Earth intelligence software, sovereign systems and manufacturing.

Sources: Pixxel ↗ · Reuters ↗

May 2026 · growth round
$60m

Skyroot Aerospace

Capital raised in this round

The round, backed by GIC, Sherpalo Ventures and BlackRock, valued Skyroot above $1 billion, making it India's first spacetech unicorn.

Source: Reuters ↗

December 2025 · Series B
$50m

Digantara

Capital raised in this round

The space-surveillance company raised the round to expand its indigenous surveillance capabilities and international presence.

Source: Reuters ↗

Ecosystem · July 2026
$871m

285 Indian companies

Cumulative disclosed funding tracked

Tracxn data reported by Business Standard counted $871 million raised across 241 rounds and 285 Indian spacetech companies as of July 2026.

Source: Business Standard ↗

Refresh note

Built for a monthly pass.

Each card is one dated record with its source beside it. This is a sourced editorial tracker, not an unsupervised feed. A monthly refresh checks each linked primary source, moves elapsed launches, adds newly announced windows and appends disclosed funding rounds. Budgets are converted using the dated rate on the card so the estimate does not drift silently.

FX used for this edition: 1 USD = ₹95.889 on 18 Sep 2026 ↗

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