Bengaluru-based Bellatrix Aerospace has successfully tested an environmentally friendly satellite propulsion system that offers a 20 percent increase in fuel efficiency over hydrazine-dependent fuel systems. Bellatrix’s recent testing of its green propulsion system also signals a turning point in the company’s quest to develop a space taxi for satellites.
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Bellatrix Aerospace, headquartered in Bangalore, India, is an Indian private aerospace manufacturing and small satellite firm. The business was founded in 2015. It wants to launch Chetak, its own rocket, in 2023. A handful of their own Aeon engines power the two-stage Chetak rocket. Bellatrix is one of a slew of new-age space tech businesses in India that have raised venture funding to go to new heights in the worldwide race for better space programmes. In June 2019, IDFC Parampara led a pre-series A round for the IISc-founded firm. Bellatrix is part of a crop that includes Agnikul Cosmos, Pixxel, Skyroot Aerospace, and others, all of which are attracting investor attention in the embryonic area.
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