CHENNAI, India/DALIAN, China — If you go to the startup Agnikul Cosmos on the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, one in all India’s high science universities, you can be advised: “Please take off your shoes and turn off your mobile phone, or set it to airplane mode.” Then you can be guided to a room with a large 3D printer, the place operators are printing a small rocket.

An engine with a fancy construction takes simply three days to finish, utilizing data culled from the web and digital design software program. Srinath Ravichandran, co-founder of the startup, believes demand for small satellites will improve. “India already became a superpower of launching in the [space] vehicle segment,” he stated.