NEW DELHI: An Indian startup’s commercial space surveillance satellite, capable of tracking objects as small as 5cm orbiting the Earth, was commissioned last Saturday as it captured images over South America.“Space just ran out of hiding spots,” Bengaluru start-up Digantara said in a post on X as its satellite SCOT (Space Camera for Object Tracking)…
NEW DELHI/BENGALURU: In a boost for the country’s private space sector, Indian space-tech startups Pixxel, Digantara and XDLINX Space Labs on Wednesday successfully launched their high-tech satellites to monitor earth and space objects. The satellites were launched aboard Elon Musk-owned SpaceX‘s Transporter-12 rideshare mission from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, US, at 1915 GMT…
BENGALURU: Bengaluru has become home to Asia’s first dedicated command and control centre for space domain awareness. The state-of-the-art facility was inaugurated Friday at the newly opened global headquarters of Digantara, a space situational awareness (SSA) company. The 25,000 sq ft headquarters houses a first-of-its-kind command centre focused solely on monitoring and managing space traffic.This…
