"We Track Adversary Satellites": India's Space Firm Digantara CEO To NDTV At Davos | Read

The space surveillance and intelligence firm Digantara got the idea of tracking objects in space after seeing the huge problem of space debris, founder and CEO Anirudh Sharma told NDTV at Davos.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi had congratulated the Digantara team for the success of 'Mission SCOT' as "an important contribution of the growing Indian space industry towards enhancing space situational awareness."

"I started this company with no background in space tech. So this was more of an accident to me while I was working towards building a satellite as part of the ISRO Student Satellite Launch Programme. We stumbled upon the idea of tracking space objects because one of the satellites that we launched as students was hit by space debris," Mr Sharma, 26, told NDTV at the World Economic Forum (WEF) meet in Davos, where some of the world's biggest leaders and thinkers are the attendees.