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| Company type | Private |
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| Industry | Aerospace |
| Founded | 2012 |
| Founder | Sanjay Srikanth Nekkanti |
| Headquarters | Hyderabad, Telangana , India |
Key people | Sanjay Srikanth Nekkanti (CEO) Abhay Egoor (CTO) Krishna Teja Penamakuru (COO) Chaitanya Dora Surapureddy (CFO) |
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Number of employees | approximately 130 |
| Website | www |
Dhruva Space Private Limited is an Indian private aerospace manufacturer headquartered in Hyderabad, Telangana. Founded in 2012 by Sanjay Srikanth Nekkanti, the company is engaged in the development of small satellites in the commercial, governmental and academic markets.[1] It provides full-stack space-engineering solutions across launch, space and ground segments – namely, the building, launching and operation of satellites.
The founding team is composed of business and technology leaders who were formerly working with Exseed Space (now called Satellize), ams AG, Cisco and KPMG and all of whom are alumni of institutes such as BITS Pilani, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, EMLYON Business School, Luleå University of Technology and Arizona State University.
The company's advisors include Lt Gen Anil Kumar Bhalla, former Director-General, Defence Intelligence Agency, former astronaut and former International Space Station Commander Chris Austin Hadfield OC OOnt MSC CD, and Niels Buus, former CEO of GomSpace.
- ^ "Dhruva Space". www.dhruvaspace.com.