BENGALURU/NEW DELHI: Two Indian space start-ups — Pixxel and Digantara — on Wednesday announced the launch of their satellites onboard a SpaceX rocket to closely monitor the earth and objects orbiting around it, marking a new era for the private firms in the space sector.
Pixxel became the first private company in India to have its own constellation of satellites using the cutting-edge hyper-spectral frequency that allows observation of the earth in over 150 bands, a technology that is useful in sectors as diverse as agriculture and defence.
Digantara Aerospace announced the launch of the world’s first commercial satellite – Space Camera for Object Tracking (SCOT) – for surveillance of objects as small as 5 cm orbiting the earth to ensure safer space operations. PTI
