Vellon Space

Vellon Space is a space technology startup, building "Vellon Space-Lab" a reusable unmanned orbiting space station for facilitating space experiments, manufacturing, technology demonstration, and explorations.

Created: 2023-01-13

Updated: 2024-07-07

Company - Vellon Space

Founded
Country: 2019; India

Funding: ?

Website: https://vellon.in/

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Product/Service - Space-Lab, AsteriX Lab

Classification: Space Stations & Habitats

Category: Microgravity Flight Service (LEO)
Microgravity Research Payloads
Commercial Space Station

Fields: Automated Microgravity Laboratory
Reusable

Status: Early stage

First launch: Not announced

Tthree offerings: Vellon Space-Lab; Vellon Eye and Vellon Orbit.

The Space-Lab will be a stabilised platform for conducting microgravity-based research and manufacturing — a micro space station that can aid non-human/automated experiments.

“It’s a mini laboratory or automated factory in space, measuring roughly the dimensions of a (Tata) Nano car. We’re creating an end-to-end space-platform-as-a-service with state-of-the-art technology available globally. This service can give India access to ‘indigenous’ space applications,” Kumar said.

IIT Madras partners with Vellon Space to advance extra-terrestrial manufacturing R&D, 2024-03-11.

Status Comment / Notes

News, Research, Projects and Patents

Title	Type	Date	Summary
Exploring the Boundless Potential of Unmanned Microgravity Experimentation in Space Research	Article	2023-04-17

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