Pixxel’s head told Reuters that India’s Pixxel will launch three of its six hyperspectral imaging satellites from the SpaceX rocket in California on Tuesday, Pixxel’s head told Reuters.
The satellite will be placed in a solar synchronous orbit around 550 kilometers, with the remaining three scheduled to be deployed in the second quarter of this year.
The release was scheduled to take place around Tuesday (1845 GMT) at the Vandenberg Space Force Base, and the next day after midnight in India – was finally approved.
Pixxel founder and CEO Awais Ahmed told Reuters it plans to add 18 spacecraft to its six spacecraft it has developed, with a gaze projection projection of $19 billion by 2029 (about 1,64,451 thousand). rupees).
The launch is a milestone in India’s nascent private space and is also a Google-backed Pixxel, a five-year-old startup.
It aims to use hyperspectral imaging, a technology that captures highly detailed data in hundreds of light bands, to serve industries such as agriculture, mining, environmental monitoring and defense.
The company said its satellites could provide insights to increase crop yields, track resources, monitor oil leakage and national borders much better than current technology allows.
“Today’s satellite imagery market is about US$4.3 billion (approximately Rs 37,219 crore), with an increase of US$14 billion (approximately Rs 1,21,18 billion). By 2029, the market is expected to reach US$19 billion (approximately Rs 1,19 billion (approximately Rs 1,19 billion) (about 1 rupees) (about 1 rupees., 64,457 crore).
Ahmed said Pixxel has signed about 65 customers, including Rio de Janeiro, BP and India’s Ministry of Agriculture, some of which have paid for data from its demonstration satellites. A contract to obtain future data from the firefly sign.
“For use of defense cases, dialogue is mainly conducted in the United States and India and elsewhere through resellers and partners. Typically, government agencies want to see and commit to the purchase before committing to the purchase,” said Ahmed, 27. Work before purchasing.”
The Pixxel is expected to have its first contact with the satellite about two and a half hours after launch and is expected to have full commercial imaging capabilities by mid-March.
However, its expansion plans face fierce competition in the global satellite market dominated by the United States and China.
The U.S.-led commercial and government satellite launches are powered by private companies such as SpaceX and government contracts, while China has become a competitor, an active national support program and rapidly expanding to low-Earth orbit satellites.
Despite its established space-mass capabilities, India only accounts for the global commercial space market. The government is now relying on private players to increase this share, aiming to increase the country’s space industry from US$8 billion (about Rs 692,58 crore) to US$44 billion (about Rs 380,976 crore) to 2030.
Pixxel hopes to surpass these challenges with its Firefly sign, which has a resolution of 5 meters and a width of 40 kilometers – among competitors such as Kuva Space in Finland and OrbitalIndkick in San Francisco, its satellites usually have lower resolutions and Lower coverage.
“If and once their commissioning is successful, they will have more imaging capabilities than they have in hyperspectral bands, which is a watershed for the Indian industry,” said Narayan Prasad, chief operating officer of SATSearch, Dutch space industry market.
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