TeamIndus

Axiom Research Labs (TeamIndus)
Company typeAerospace research
For-profit organisation
IndustryAerospace
FoundersRahul Narayan, Indranil Chakraborty, Sameer Joshi, Dilip Chabria, Julius Amrit, Sheelika Ravishankar
HeadquartersBangalore,
India
Number of locations
Delhi, Bangalore
Websitewww.teamindus.in
and
medium.com/teamindus

TeamIndus (incorporated as Axiom Research Labs[1]) is a private for-profit aerospace company headquartered in Bangalore, India. It consists of a team of professionals from various backgrounds in science, technology, finance, and media, that came together in 2010 with the aim of winning the Google Lunar X Prize competition announced in 2007. Although the competition ended in 2018 without a winner, TeamIndus is still working towards developing and launching their lunar rover mission sometime in 2020 after partnering[vague] with OrbitBeyond.

TeamIndus' lander was originally code-named HHK1, now called Z-01, and their rover is called ECA, an abbreviation for Ek Choti Si Asha (A Small Hope).[2]

  1. ^ How Axiom Research Labs has emerged as India's first private aerospace company. Kunal Talgeri, Economic Times. 12 February 2017.
  2. ^ Startup Street: Indian Startup Gets Another Chance To Land Rover On Moon. Mahima Kapoor and Azman Usmani, Bloomberg. 8 April 2018.