Space Business Podcast #112 - Tushar Jadhav, Manastu Space: In-Space Propulsion

Space Business Podcast

India's space sector is really blasting off (pun intended!). Among other things, the country just became only the fourth one to soft land on the Moon. So it's only fitting that we'll have more Indian space companies and people as guests. Our first one is Tushar Jadhav, founder and CEO of Manastu Space, a propulsion startup from Mumbai that recently announced a $3MM financing round (for full disclosure, E2MC, the space VC fund where Raphael is a partner, is an investor in that round). Please enjoy hearing about Manastu and space in India!

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Timestamps:

0:00 Intro
3:14 Elevator pitch
3:55 Green satellite propultion
9:20 Why was hydrazine originally chosen?
11:15 The current system
15:09 Hydrogen peroxide
18:31 Chemical propulsion vs electrical propulsion
23:01 Manastu's product & business model
25:45 In-orbit demonstration
26:27 Main customer group
27:26 Export control
28:23 Scaling up & adding on services
30:52 Vision for the company
31:45 Origin story
35:38 Indian Space Ecosystem
44:16 What's next?
46:15 Sci-fi