Bigger, Better, Cheaper: How India Is Building a Private Empire in Space

Anirudh Sharma graduated from engineering college just two years ago, but the 23-year-old is in the thick of a revolution. 

In June this year, Sharma’s company, Digantara – which translates to “space” in Sanskrit – launched what’s arguably the world’s first commercial space-based space weather system, whose technology, he says, is “kind of like Google Maps for space.”