Defence research and development
Nakshatra Aerospace
Research into AI-driven autonomous hypersonic systems, for national security and, in time, hypersonic passenger flight.
The mission.
Speed and autonomy are becoming the deciding factors in aerospace. A country that can build both for itself does not have to buy them from someone else.
Nakshatra Aerospace exists to do that research in India: vehicles that fly at hypersonic speed and can think for themselves while doing it. The first purpose is national security. The second, further out, is to put the same technology to work carrying people.
Research focus
Three lines of work.
Autonomous flight intelligence
At hypersonic speed there is no time for a human in the loop. The research centres on AI that can guide, decide and correct on its own, within limits set in advance.
Hypersonic systems
Flight above five times the speed of sound changes every assumption about heat, control and materials. The work is to understand those limits well enough to design around them.
From defence to civil flight
The same capability that serves national security can shorten the longest journeys on Earth. Passenger flight at hypersonic speed is the long-term aim.
Where it stands.
Nakshatra Aerospace is at the research stage. There is no flight hardware to show yet, and nothing here claims otherwise. Results, partners and timelines will be published on this page as they become real.
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Early research is paid for long before there is anything to sell. Every contribution goes toward that work, and every supporter is named below.
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