Ankit Khandelwal

Exploring the future of 🚀 Space & ₿ Crypto Manufacturing in India 🇮🇳 Curious mind. Long-term builder

[Shubhanshu Shukla @gagan_shux]

The Indian space sector seems to be getting more exciting with each passing day.

Today, I had the privilege of witnessing the unveiling of EVEREST—a full-flow staged combustion engine being developed by Astrobase @astrobase_space in Bengaluru.

For those outside the space community, this may sound like just another engine. It isn’t. A full-flow staged combustion cycle is among the most demanding engineering challenges in rocketry. To date, only a handful of companies—not countries, but companies—have seriously pursued this architecture, and only SpaceX has successfully flown one to orbit.

What stayed with me, however, wasn’t just the hardware on display. It was the faces in the room.

Behind every piece of metal stood years of calculations, failed tests, redesigns, persistence, and quiet determination. You could see it in the smiles of the engineers and the pride in their eyes. Those expressions told the real story of the milestone.

My heartfelt congratulations to the entire Astrobase team on reaching this point. Milestones like these are never the finish line, they are proof that the journey is moving in the right direction. Wishing you all the very best for the hot-fire tests and the many successes that lie ahead.

This is how ecosystems are built, not through a single breakthrough, but through many ambitious teams choosing to solve problems that once seemed impossibly hard.

And that is what makes me deeply optimistic about the future of India’s space sector.

#shux #space #india #shubhanshushukla #astrobase

[Ankit Khandelwal @Ankitk270]

@astrobase_space This Beast gona fire soon

[Ankit Khandelwal @Ankitk270]

@vg2769167 @astrobase_space Beauty isn’t it

[Ankit Khandelwal @Ankitk270]

@SpaceX We have our own FFSC Engine now
@astrobase_space proud Indian

[Ankit Khandelwal @Ankitk270]

@astrobase_space Congratulations, @astrobase_space team! The future of Indian space technology looks brighter than ever. 🚀🇮🇳

[Ankit Khandelwal @Ankitk270]

Congratulations to the @astrobase_space @neerajKh_ @devakumar_t and team! Building world-class rocket engines in India is a milestone worth celebrating. Wishing you even greater success ahead. 🇮🇳🚀

[Astrobase Space @astrobase_space]

EVEREST — India’s first full-flow staged combustion (FFSC) rocket engine.

80-tonne class. Fully integrated. Designed and manufactured in Bengaluru, India.

[Ankit Khandelwal @Ankitk270]

Energy security isn’t just about power—it’s about economic independence. Every step toward domestic clean energy makes India stronger. 🇮🇳

[Narendra Modi @narendramodi]

A vital step towards clean energy, rural prosperity and realising our collective dream of an Atmanirbhar Bharat!

The Cabinet has approved GOBARdhan Scheme, which will give a major boost to Compressed Biogas, with the aim of increasing domestic CBG production nearly ten-fold. The scheme will create a strong and predictable ecosystem for investment and innovation.

It will benefit our farmers, cooperatives, MSMEs, women entrepreneurs and rural enterprises while strengthening energy security, reducing dependence on imported fossil fuels and promoting scientific waste management.

https://t.co/bafSm347ra

[Ankit Khandelwal @Ankitk270]

Which Indian startup do you believe could become globally iconic in the next 10 years?

🚀 SpaceTech
🤖 AI
₿ Crypto
⚙️ Manufacturing
🌱 Climate Tech

I’d love to hear your picks.
#isro #astrobase

[ISRO @isro]

Congratulations to the entire Skyroot Aerospace Team on the successful launch of Vikram-1 (Mission Aagaman) from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota.
The mission marks a significant milestone for India’s private space sector and reflects the growing capability of the country’s space ecosystem.
Congratulations to IN-SPACe and ISRO teams, who enabled and facilitated the launch and ground testing operations along with technical consultancy and 24x7 safety surveillance.
This achievement is also a testament to the Space Sector Reforms envisioned by our Hon’ble Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi ji.

#Vikram1
#IndiawithVikram1
#SkyrootAerospace
#OpeningSpaceForAll

[Ankit Khandelwal @Ankitk270]

The rise of private space companies in India is one of the most exciting stories of this decade.

@astrobase_space is working on advanced reusable rocket engine technology—another sign that India’s private space ecosystem is accelerating. 🚀🇮🇳

[IndiaToday @IndiaToday]

#Exclusive | India is building the rocket engine only SpaceX has ever flown. It's not ISRO

Read more: https://t.co/QCZ6k0sHd7

#SpaceX #ISRO | @Astro_Radifah

[Ankit Khandelwal @Ankitk270]

India is no longer just launching satellites.

We’re now building the next generation of rocket engines, reusable launch systems, and world-class private space companies.

The next decade belongs to those who build.

🇮🇳🚀

#SpaceTech #India #astrobase

[Ankit Khandelwal @Ankitk270]

India’s next wave of global innovation won’t come only from software.

SpaceTech, AI, and deep-tech are opening entirely new opportunities—and Indian startups are ready to lead.

The future is being built today. 🇮🇳🚀

#SpaceTech #Innovation

[Ankit Khandelwal @Ankitk270]

This is how nations are built—not overnight, but through years of engineering, research, and relentless hard work. Proud of every scientist and engineer of @astrobase_space making this possible. 🇮🇳🚀

[Astrobase Space @astrobase_space]

This Friday, we reveal India’s first fully integrated 80-tonne-class FFSC rocket engine.

[Astrobase Space @astrobase_space]

This Friday, we reveal India’s first fully integrated 80-tonne-class FFSC rocket engine.

[Neeraj Khandelwal @neerajKh_]

We have now fully integrated Astrobase’s first engine. This Friday, we finally show it to the world. Spoiler: it looks incredible.

Next major milestone: integrated engine hot-fire testing 🇮🇳

[Neeraj Khandelwal @neerajKh_]

I admire Modi. That’s because my dream exists because of him and his government. I am trying to make India a global space super power and it has been only possible because Modi Govt privatised space and forced the space ecosystem from top to down to support private companies. The Indian govt today is working with us hand in hand. When I started Astrobase, my worry was the Govt slowness, but after working on the problem statement, I realised it’s the biggest friend we have got.

I have never personally experienced how the Govt worked under previous PMs. I was a kid back then. So I don’t really have comments on that.

[Astrobase Space @astrobase_space]

Astrobase has successfully fabricated and installed its engine test stand that can support upto 200 Tons of upward thrust. The 80 Ton thrust Full Flow Staged Combustion (FFSC) engine will be fired here.

[Neeraj Khandelwal @neerajKh_]

When we reveal India’s own FFSC engine, it will fill the country with pride!

[Astrobase Space @astrobase_space]

4 trucks. 1 printer. The largest 3D printer in India, arriving at Astrobase. One single printer can manufacture multiple 80 Ton thrust FFSC engines per annum. This is the first.

[Neeraj Khandelwal @neerajKh_]

There is a special kind of high that builders get in taking an idea from zero to 1 and then 1 to 100.

We had an internal hackathon at @CoinDCX recently where people across teams worked on the zero to 1 journey in 24 hours: they ideated, validated and built working demos of some cool products leveraging AI.

Now many of those ideas are moving into testing and will soon ship to users: the real 1-to-100 journey.

For me, seeing your product being used by millions of people >>> HODLing 10 bitcoin

[Sumit Gupta (CoinDCX) @smtgpt]

I want to address what happened to Neeraj and me last week. Of course, it was quite shocking to us as well and honestly very disheartening. But today, we want to talk about what actually happened and more importantly, what we’re going to do about it.

On March 21, we were taken into police custody in connection with a fraud complaint. Three days later, on March 24, a Thane court granted us bail, finding that prima facie, no case was made out against us. The fraud at the centre of this complaint was carried out through a fake website - "https://t.co/mn7Ou56fXE" by impersonators who have absolutely no connection to our platform, our systems, or CoinDCX. No money moved through CoinDCX. No transaction occurred on our exchange. The complainant himself confirmed in court that he did not know us and had never met us.

I'll be honest: our experience was deeply unsettling. Not because we doubted the facts -- we knew from the first moment that this had nothing to do with us. But because it made something painfully clear: the ecosystem we operate in doesn't yet have the tools to tell the difference between the people building this industry responsibly and the people exploiting it.

Think about what this precedent means: if a scammer uses your brand, your name, your face in a fake website and defrauds someone, you can be arrested. Not the scammer. You. This Could Happen to Any founder, Any Business.

That has to change.

And we've decided that CoinDCX will lead that change - not with words, but with actions. Today, we are announcing Digital Suraksha Network (D.S.N.) - a ₹100 crore commitment from CoinDCX to build the cyber safety infrastructure that India's digital finance ecosystem needs but does not yet have. This is not a crypto problem. This is a problem across any company which has a digital footprint.

Here's what we're building:
→ 24x7 WhatsApp helpline: free for everyone, not just CoinDCX users, to verify links, platforms, and offers before you transact.
→ Open Fraud Intelligence API: We have already documented 1,200+ fraudulent websites impersonating CoinDCX. That data sat inside our systems. Not anymore. We're building an open API to share this intelligence in real time and inviting every exchange, fintech, bank, and digital lender to contribute. A shared immune system for India's digital finance ecosystem.
→ Cyber Safety Infrastructure for Law Enforcement: The Digital Suraksha Network will fund training programmes for state cybercrime cells on blockchain forensics and digital asset tracing.
→ "Caution Before Transaction": a nationwide initiative to give every Indian the tools to participate in digital finance safely.

We know that no single company can solve this. Fraud networks are sophisticated, cross-border, and evolving daily. Nowadays, they make use of AI that makes them exponentially harder to catch. But someone has to start to fix this problem from the root.

We are putting ₹100 crore on the table because the ecosystem cannot afford to wait. I am asking every platform, every regulator, and every Indian who participates in digital finance to join us.

We want to ensure that anyone building startups in India like us can do so with confidence, and not with fear.