Sree Supranayi Kanamarlapudi
Sree Supranayi Kanamarlapudi had dreamt of changing into an astronaut as a baby. She stored the dream alive rising up and earned a B.Tech in Aerospace Engineering. She has now based a spacetech start-up, AnduraX, in Vijayawada, that’s properly on its option to constructing the nation’s first re-entry area car able to manoeuvring in low Earth orbit and retrieving area of interest pharma or semiconductor merchandise manufactured in area.
“I at all times needed to be an astronaut, impressed by my mom’s tales a couple of civilisation on the moon. By the point I turned 25, that imaginative and prescient fuelled my need to enter the area trade,” says Kanamarlapudi.
After she graduated from Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore, she accomplished her MBA in Finance. After three years at a reusable launch car startup, she based her personal startup along with her former colleague, Nirvik Choudhury, as a Co-Founder. Backed by government-backed funds comparable to Nidhi Prayas, SISFS, and Meity TIDE, the two-year-old startup is focussing on constructing autonomous re-entry automobiles for microgravity R&D and in-orbit manufacturing.
“Area gives a singular microgravity surroundings with out the normal constraints of Earth’s gravity. This surroundings serves as a perfect platform for manufacturing merchandise comparable to pharmaceutical medication, semiconductor chips, and fiber optics, yielding much better outcomes than on earth,” she instructed businessline.
A graduate of KickSky Area Lab Cohort 2, a venture-capital-backed accelerator that focuses on area expertise startups, AnduraX examined its digital platform final week utilizing Pink Balloon’s maiden stratospheric balloon take a look at. “We efficiently reclaimed the payload in Karnataka,” she mentioned.
It was to generate important flight information to assist the event of its steering, navigation, and Management (GNC) structure and return functionality.
Microgravity impact
The significance of area manufacturing is that, within the absence of gravity-driven results comparable to convection and sedimentation, it permits supplies and organic buildings to kind in a different way. This has direct implications for a number of industries.
“In pharmaceutical analysis, protein crystals grown in area might be considerably bigger and extra structurally exact, bettering the power to design medication for complicated illnesses comparable to most cancers and neurodegenerative problems,” she says.
Equally, area manufacturing permits for the creation of “purer, extremely heat-resistant semiconductor wafers” which might be extremely troublesome to supply beneath Earth’s gravity. “This immediately advantages industries constructing high-efficiency AI information centres,” she claimed.
The startup is preparing for an upcoming alternative on this space. “The most important bottleneck in making area for the subsequent manufacturing hub is logistics – particularly, return logistics,” she factors out.
“Return logistics rely closely on capsules, which endure excessive gravity forces upon re-entry and require prolonged, pricey restoration operations. At AnduraX, we’re constructing reusable area planes to unravel this. These automobiles journey to area, facilitate manufacturing throughout numerous industries, and return completed merchandise safely to Earth with low gravity forces, guaranteeing delicate manufactured items are usually not broken,” she says.
“At present, experiments are taking place on the ISS. We at the moment are transitioning from that experimentation part to large-scale manufacturing, which is predicted to ramp up by 2028 or 2029. We’re constructing the foundational logistics platform now in order that we’re prepared when the manufacturing growth happens,” she says.
A assured Kanamarlapudi says the start-up goals to develop into a pioneer on this expertise, not only for world business use but additionally to assist Indian defence initiatives, comparable to hypersonic testing.
Whereas its main car (the absolutely reusable area airplane) shouldn’t be slated to be absolutely operational till 2029, the corporate shouldn’t be ready till then to generate income. It’s actively commercialising numerous subsystems it’s constructing to generate income over the subsequent two to a few years.
Revealed on June 7, 2026
