Role Name: Propellant R&D; Lab Chemist
About Manastu
Manastu Space is a Space Safety and Logistics company focused on making space secure, sustainable, and accessible. We develop technologies to address critical challenges such as space debris mitigation and green propulsion, enabling safer satellite operations and long-term sustainability of the space ecosystem.
Our work sits at the intersection of advanced engineering, applied research, and mission-critical systems, requiring deep technical capability and long-term thinking.
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Role Objective
The Propellant R&D; Lab Chemist will own routine bench preparation within the Energetic Material Department, enabling the R&D; team to increase experimental throughput from one to two or more experiments per week on the MS-289C green propellant programme.
This role is responsible end to end for glassware preparation (cleaning, acid passivation, and high-temperature annealing), sample preparation,
routine analytical measurements, and the accurate completion of experiment records on the day the work is done.
Role Overview
We are seeking a detail-oriented and safety-conscious laboratory Chemist, based in Navi Mumbai, with a BSc in Chemistry and hands-on experience handling corrosive and oxidising chemicals. The role sits within the Energetic Material Department and works directly alongside the R&D; scientist and engineer to execute the MS-289C stability and characterisation programme.
The central technical challenge is rigorous chemical cleanliness. Our propellant, an H₂O₂-based green monopropellant, is highly sensitive to trace metal contamination at the parts-per-million level. Every vessel that contacts the propellant must be cleaned, acid-passivated, and annealed to a documented standard before use; any deviation introduces a variable that cannot be corrected in data analysis after the fact.
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📌 Propellant Lab Chemist (Navi Mumbai)
🏢 Manastu Space
📍 Navi Mumbai