{"id":1004825,"date":"2026-04-25T11:40:32","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T06:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1004825"},"modified":"2026-04-25T11:59:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T06:29:20","slug":"spacetech-startups-spot-promise-in-defence-apps-its-road-of-tough-choices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/25\/spacetech-startups-spot-promise-in-defence-apps-its-road-of-tough-choices\/","title":{"rendered":"Spacetech startups spot promise in defence apps; it&#8217;s road of tough choices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indian spacetech startups are shifting focus from purely commercial use cases to defence-led applications. Increasing geopolitical tensions and slow enterprise adoption are making them pivot to government and defence contracts. But in doing so, founders say they are being forced to make tough choices on which countries to work with and which ones to avoid. <\/p>\n<p>Founders and investors told ET that startups are simply following demand. Defence offers clearer budgets, faster procurement, and immediate revenue unlike commercial markets, which require scaling constellations. That takes time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian spacetech startups are shifting focus from purely commercial use cases to defence-led applications. Increasing geopolitical tensions and slow enterprise adoption are making them pivot to government and defence contracts. But in doing so, founders say they are being forced to make tough choices on which countries to work with and which ones to avoid. Founders and investors told ET that startups are simply following demand. Defence offers clearer budgets, faster procurement, and immediate revenue unlike commercial markets, which require scaling constellations. That takes time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1004825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1004825"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1004863,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004825\/revisions\/1004863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1004825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1004825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1004825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}