/ Founder · Jainul Abedin

Someone from here had to try.

“I did not start Abyom to build a business. I started it because someone from here had to try.” — Jainul Abedin, Founder & CEO, Abyom Spacetech & Defence.

  1. Chapter I
    Jainul Abedin, founder of Abyom, portrait

    A boy from Kushinagar

    Jainul Abedin grows up in a small town in eastern Uttar Pradesh. The distance between Kushinagar and a launchpad is measured in more than kilometres — and he decides, early, to close it.

  2. Chapter II

    The leap

    Days before his final-semester exam of a master's in space science, he walks away from the paper and boards a train to Hyderabad. The mission cannot wait for a certificate.

  3. Chapter III
    Jainul Abedin at Rashtrapati Bhavan with the Indian tricolour

    ISRO veterans on board

    Abyom's advisory committee takes shape around veterans of the Indian space programme — former directors and scientists from VSSC and LPSC, ISRO.

  4. Chapter IV

    First capital

    Abyom closes its debut angel round. Belief becomes budget. A company that lived on paper begins to live in metal.

  5. Chapter V
    Jainul Abedin, founder of Abyom, with the Indian tricolour

    Institutional home

    Abyom sets up at the Technology Business Incubator, BITS Pilani Hyderabad Campus, and builds its own Rocket Engine Testing Facility in collaboration with PIEDS.

  6. Chapter VI

    Ethanol hot fires

    The team runs battleship engine tests on ethanol-fuelled propulsion at its own stand. Every burn is a lesson. Every lesson earns its place in flight.

  7. Chapter VII

    A reusable rocket

    Abyom begins building what India has not yet built for itself — a fully reusable launch vehicle. Fly. Land. Fly again.

  8. Chapter VIII
    Jainul Abedin wearing an Abyom polo shirt

    The vision

    Reliable, affordable, sovereign access to space. Not for one company. For a country. For a generation that follows.

/ Milestones

Steps to a launchpad.

Origin01

Kushinagar

A student who chose space over a diploma.

Move02

Hyderabad

Where the mission gets its address.

ISRO03

Mentorship

Guided by veterans of the Indian space programme.

Incubated04

TBI, BITS Pilani

An institutional home in Hyderabad.

Capital05

Angel round

Belief becomes budget.

Test facility06

With PIEDS

A containerised engine test facility of our own.

Ethanol engine07

Hot fires

Battleship burns. Every one, a lesson.

Reusable LV08

In build

India's first fully reusable rocket.

Vision09

Sovereign access

Reliable. Affordable. Ours.

/ Partnerships

No one reaches orbit alone.

ISRO mentorship✦Technology Business Incubator, BITS Pilani✦PIEDS✦Angel investors of Abyom✦ISRO mentorship✦Technology Business Incubator, BITS Pilani✦PIEDS✦Angel investors of Abyom✦ISRO mentorship✦Technology Business Incubator, BITS Pilani✦PIEDS✦Angel investors of Abyom✦
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