Chetan Kale
Founder and editor, The Space Road · Pune, India
Chetan Kale is the founder and editor of The Space Road, based in Pune, India. He is an information technology engineer from Yeshwantrao Chavan College of Engineering (Nagpur University) and holds a two-year full-time MBA from Vinod Gupta School of Management, IIT Kharagpur. In 12 years of work he started in e-commerce, then moved to financial services with ICICI Bank and Kotak Mahindra Bank, and later into digital asset investment research with AMINA Bank, Token Metrics and Asva Capital. The first Falcon Heavy launch in February 2018, when SpaceX sent a Tesla Roadster into space, is what got him hooked, and it led him to start The Space Road.
What he covers
SpaceX and Starship first, then the Moon, Mars and the wider space industry. Every story starts from the primary source, the company or agency doing the work, and links to it.
Find Chetan
The Space Road on: X · YouTube · Instagram · Facebook
To get in touch, email [email protected] or use the contact page.
Latest stories
- NASA's Artemis plan explained: Artemis III in summer 2027, a Moon landing in 2028
- Why is catching Starship's ship harder than catching the booster?
- Who else is landing rockets? SpaceX's rivals in reusability
- SpaceX Q3 2026 earnings explained: where did the money come from?
- What is JAXA's MMX mission? Japan's trip to Mars's moon Phobos
- When is Starship Flight 15, SpaceX's first try at catching both the booster and the ship?
- Every Starship flight so far: what each one tried and what happened
- Starship glossary: 42 terms explained, from NET to static fire
- What is Starship? SpaceX's giant reusable rocket, explained
