InspeCity’s $5.6 Million Moonshot: Can an Indian Upstart Rewire America’s Orbital Supply Chain?

When Northrop Grumman’s Mission Extension Vehicle successfully latched onto a dying satellite in 2020, it heralded a new era of on-orbit servicing. Five years later, on the other side of the globe, a small startup out of Mumbai is betting it can help make such feats routine – and possibly at a fraction of the cost. InspeCity, an IIT Bombay-incubated venture, has just secured a $5.6 million seed round to develop satellite life-extension and in-space servicing technologies. The amount might seem modest by Silicon Valley standards, but it carries outsized implications for the in-space servicing, assembly, and manufacturing (ISAM) arena.

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