He believes, space technology could have already taken us to Mars and beyond if more and more people had worked towards it, collectively, and not just government agencies. While   building SpaceX, he proved a lot of people wrong, once who firmly believed that Space-tech is not for private ventures to explore.  

In India, ISRO is no doubt doing an excellent job. India is also among the very few countries that have planned to have its own space station by 2030. As per a report by Research and Markets – The Space Industry, was valued at US$ 360 billion in 2018, and this is projected to grow to value US$ 558 billion by 2026. Therefore, these are all good reasons to launch a startup in this domain and revolutionise space technology. 

Let’s take a look at some of the Indian space technology companies that are making the news.

Kawa Space Tech

The company designs and operates earth observation satellite constellations. It serves customers in financial services, government, strategic risk management and agriculture. Kawa Space is based out of Mumbai, Maharashtra, and was founded in 2019 by Kris Nair and Bala M. 

Highlights

The 16 member team has won the contract to build over 27 satellites for ISRO. 

It is backed by Paytm founder, Vijay Shekhar Sharma.

What does the co-founder Kris Nair say on the subject?

Nair says, “Space is a very large opportunity. We have 300+ companies in India focusing on this market, they have been operating their businesses and doing remarkable things for the last 30+ years. Most have been supporting critical missions of ISRO & other agencies for a very long time. We are also using a dozen of them for our missions”.

Dhruva Space Tech

Dhruva Space which is based out of Hyderabad, Telangana, was founded in 2012 by Sanjay Srikanth Nekkanti and Narayan Prasad. The company is working on to build and launch small satellites in the 10-100 kg range. Do you ask, why? Two reasons: It cost less and have a turnaround time of nearly 18 months. 

Highlights:

Dhruva Space seems positive in its endeavour of building and making private commercial satellite, a norm in India. The company is anticipating to build about 70 small satellites that can be launched as a constellation, for its potential customers.

What does the CSO, Abhishek Raju, has to say on the subject?

Abhishek Raju, chief strategy officer of the company, says “We are trying to prove our hypothesis that space need not be expensive, and a lot of frugal innovation is possible.”

Exseed Space 

Exseed Space was founded by Kris Nair and Asshar Farhan in 2017 and his headquartered at Mumbai, Maharashtra. They develop small satellite platforms with a major focus on assembly, integration, operation, and testing of satellites. 

Highlights

The company became the first private Indian company to put a satellite in space in December 2018.

There are Astrome, Bellatrix Aerospace and many more companies that are doing an incredible job in innovating space technology in India, that we shall discuss in further write-ups .

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What other big brains have said so far on the subject?

-The billionaire CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, Elon Musk believes, “AI is more dangerous than North Korea.”
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-Billionaire entrepreneur and investor Mark Cuban said, “I am telling you, the world’s first trillionaires are going to come from somebody who masters AI and all its derivatives and applies it in ways we never thought of.”

-Famous physicist Stephen Hawking said, “AI could be the worst event in the history of our civilization.”

Taking these remarks into consideration it could be concluded that today AI is one of the hottest matters of debate among the biggest business leaders, scientists and thinkers of our time. Where do you think they get this knowledge from? They are just human like us then how do they get so enlightened on a subject and make such profound statements? The answer is pretty simple. They make an effort to learn and dare to venture into a less explored territory. One of the key ingredients to that is ‘reading’. Most of them are avid readers. You can be too.

Here is a list of books people like Bill Gates, Elon Musk and Mark Cuban have read on Artificial Intelligence.

1. Nick Bostrom’s Superintelligence

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The book has been written by Swedish philosopher Nick Bostrom and it argues that if machine brains surpass human brains in general intelligence, then this new superintelligence could replace humans as the dominant life-form on Earth.

Not just Bill Gates, even Elon Musk wants you to read this one if you want to better grasp AI.

Musk tweeted on Aug 3, 2014, “Worth reading Super intelligence by Bostrom. We need to be super careful with AI. Potentially more dangerous than nukes.”

2. Pedro Domingos’ The Master Algorithm

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The author writes, “If it exists, the Master Algorithm can derive all knowledge in the world—past, present, and future—from data. Inventing it would be one of the greatest advances in the history of science.”

This is the book both Bill Gates and Mark Cuban wants you to read.

Mark says, “It’s a very readable guide to how all the different forms of artificial intelligence work and how they can impact each of us and our environment now and long-term.”

3. Our Final Invention by James Barrat

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This book discusses the potential benefits and possible risks of human-level or super-human artificial intelligence. The author says, those supposed risks include extermination of the human race.

Elon tweeted on Aug 3, 2014, “While on the subject of AI risk, Our Final Invention by James Barrat is also worth reading.”

4. Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence by Max Tegmark

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This book by an MIT professor is more optimistic towards AI and stresses how we can keep AI beneficial to humankind.

Elon tweeted on Aug 29, 2014, “Worth reading Life 3.0 by @Tegmark. AI will be the best or worst thing ever for humanity, so let’s get it right.”

What’s your take on AI? Tell us more about the other books you have read on AI.

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