New Delhi: Bengaluru-based New Space startup Digantara has been awarded a contract to strengthen Thailand’s space ecosystem with Space Situational Awareness (SSA) capabilities by Thailand’s Geo-Informatics and Space Technology Development Agency (GISTDA). GISTDA’s THEOS-2A satellite was lost in the botched flight of ISRO’s PSLV-C62 rocket, which was the first time ISRO had lost a satellite of a foreign customer. Earlier in the year, Digantara had signed a similar contract with the Defence Science and Technology Agency (DSTA) of Singapore. The agreement supports Singapore’s National Space Agency of Singapore (NSAS), which will be formally institutionalised on 1 April, 2026.
Digantara operates a network of space and ground-based sensing infrastructure, along with AI-driven analytics to provide enhanced visibility of orbital environments. The deployment of large constellations of small satellites is making Earth orbit an increasingly congested environment, increasing the risk of collisions. Digantara’s tools provide comprehensive monitoring capabilities, ensuring the safety of orbital assets, and enabling long-term operational reliability. Digantara will contribute its technical capabilities in detection, tracking and predicting analysis. Digantara is one of the few startups around the world with demonstrated capabilities of Non-Earth Imaging, that is observing other assets in Earth orbit, through its SCOT satellite launched in 2025.
Comprehensive Safety Net
Digantara’s SCOT satellite is equipped with lidar, that removes the guesswork from calculating distances to satellites using optical sensors. Digantara also uses terrestrial radar instruments and passive RF tracking to derive a comprehensive picture of activity in Earth Orbit. Digantara is on a mission to make space more secure, and transparent, and intends to track space weather and asteroids, both of which are hazardous to operating in Earth orbit. Digantara has also signed an agreement with Tokyo-based ispace towards domain awareness in cislunar space. Recently, Digantara has also extended its realtime tracking, threat detection and predictive space domain awareness capabilities to track missiles, bolstering national security.