Pixxel to launch six home-built hyper-spectral satellites from June

New Delhi: Bengaluru-based space start-up Pixxel plans to launch a series of small, home-built satellites — Fireflies — from June that could have a finer look at the Earth with its five-metre resolution hyper-spectral imagery. Pixxel recently launched its satellite manufacturing unit — Mega Pixxel — in Bengaluru where it can assemble, integrate and test 40 satellites weighing 100 kilogrammes every year as the nascent company aims to take a leap in the space sector.

“If you are looking at 100-kilogramme micro-satellites which are able to do a whole lot of stuff in terms of actual commercial viability, we can do 20 of them at a single point in time. The turnaround time from getting them assembled to ship-to-launch is about six months. That makes it 40 every year,” Awais Ahmed, founder and CEO Pixxel, told PTI.