Cosmoserve Space

Cosmoserve Space, headquartered in Hyderabad, India and founded in 2025, is an active debris removal startup developing autonomous robotic spacecraft using AI-driven control systems and soft robotics grappling mechanisms — designed to capture and deorbit non-cooperative defunct satellites and debris objects that cannot be approached with conventional rigid mechanical grippers because they are tumbling, uncooperative, or structurally degraded.

Founded by former ISRO scientists including the Deputy Project Director of the Gaganyaan human spaceflight program — India's first crewed spacecraft, currently under development — Cosmoserve brings together experienced spacecraft system engineers with operational experience in Indian orbital missions. This heritage provides credibility in mission planning, rendezvous and proximity operations (RPO) design, and the kind of government procurement relationships that are essential for India's growing space sustainability programs.

Cosmoserve's mission architecture is built around a 'Reviver and Mothercraft' duo concept: the Mothercraft is a larger servicing vehicle that operates as an orbital base station, carrying multiple smaller 'Reviver' autonomous capture vehicles. The Mothercraft can deploy Revivers to target objects in nearby orbits, enabling a single mission to address up to 100 satellite-sized debris objects across an orbital band — a multiplicative approach designed to address the debris accumulation challenge at scale rather than one object at a time. Soft robotics grappling — using compliant actuators and flexible capture mechanisms rather than rigid jaws — is the key enabling technology for capturing tumbling or damaged satellites whose solar panels, antennas, or structural elements may be compromised.

Cosmoserve operates in India's newly liberalized commercial space sector following the Indian Space Policy 2023 and the establishment of IN-SPACe (Indian National Space Promotion and Authorization Centre) as the regulatory body for private space activities, positioning itself to address global LEO debris removal contracts as well as potential Indian government debris mitigation mandates.