India, June 5 -- Dhruva Space, a full-stack space engineering solutions provider based in India, has entered into a strategic partnership with Sodern ArianeGroup, a France-based company specialising in optical and inertial instrumentation for the space and defence sectors.

As part of Dhruva Space's Launching Expeditions for Aspiring Payloads (LEAP) programme an initiative aimed at improving orbital access for global customers Sodern will deploy its next-generation HORUS star tracker on a Dhruva Space-hosted mission scheduled for launch in 2026.

The HORUS payload will be integrated with Dhruva Space's indigenously developed P-30 nanosatellite platform, which features a modular bus architecture. This platform, including key subsystems suc...