This startup set up by 21-year-olds tracks dead satellites and 'space junk'

Digantara, a company incubated at Indian Insitute of Science (IISc), aims to combat the growing problem of space debris by developing India's first space-based surveillance platform

Since the start of the space age in the 1950s, thousands of rockets and satellites have been launched into the orbit. This has resulted in an increased risk of collision due to the accumulation of space junk or debris, which includes thousands of dead satellites, along with bits of debris from all the rockets orbiting our planet.

In India, Digantara, a company incubated at the Indian Insitute of Science (IISc) in Bengaluru, aims to combat the growing problem of space debris by developing the country’s first space-based surveillance platform.

This would enable tracking of space objects to help satellites companies,