India, Aug. 14 -- In a landmark initiative coming together of India's healthcare and private space ecosystems, Redcliffe Labs, one of India's fastest-growing omnichannel diagnostic service providers, and Skyroot Aerospace, India's first private company to reach orbit, have joined hands to explore the future of diagnostics in space.

The collaboration brings together two distinctly Indian capabilities diagnostic science and space technology to study how diagnostic reagents perform under the extreme conditions of Low Earth Orbit, while exploring how the learnings could advance diagnostics on Earth.

The first step is DRIFT-1, which will place Redcliffe Labs' dry diagnostic reagents in Low Earth Orbit for 90 days, alongside an identical grou...