Digantara, Japanese startup join hands to create map of moon orbit

Bengaluru-based start-up Digantara on Friday announced a partnership with a Japanese firm to create a map of the orbit around the moon to look out for space debris that could potentially harm future lunar missions.

Digantara, which is creating a ‘Google Map’ for the low earth orbit that is buzzing with thousands of satellites, has joined hands with Japanese start-up ispace inc to establish a cislunar situational awareness and domain infrastructure.