ispace and Digantara team up to develop cislunar space‑situational‑awareness capabilities

ispace and India’s Digantara have announced a partnership to develop cislunar space‑situational‑awareness capabilities intended to underpin safe operations, resource utilisation and long‑term lunar infrastructure. The joint mission aims to lay the foundation for a sustainable lunar ecosystem by improving detection, tracking and situational awareness in cis‑lunar space.

Discovered 2025-09-07T18:25:03.810209-07:00 | 2025-09-07T18:25:03.810209-07:00

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  • Several recent efforts are expanding activity beyond low Earth orbit — including China testing cislunar infrastructure (link) and growing investor interest in lunar data centres (link) — increasing the number of assets that will need tracking and coordination: https://hype.aero/?story=d204c4b5-c795-4383-8f13-a7a931c8895c, https://hype.aero/?story=ced3d11a-1eb0-4417-8fe2-115c7918d677
  • The partnership builds on parallel commercial and multilateral efforts to share SSA data and services, complementing initiatives such as Telespazio–Digantara–Intella’s SSA work and the international lunar data‑sharing initiative aimed at safe, sustainable operations on the Moon: https://hype.aero/?story=8e278673-ebcc-4934-9f08-126706dc5777, https://hype.aero/?story=a40aac37-468b-4dff-8288-65dcfd2b08d8

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