Hyderabad Start-ups Power Multiple Missions On Isro’s PSLV-C62 Launch
Hyderabad: Hyderabad is set to make a strong mark in India’s fast-growing private space ecosystem, with a number of city-based start-ups contributing significant payloads and missions to the rocket launch from the spaceport in Sriharikota on Monday.
PSLV-DL-C62, carrying the DRDO-designed earth observation satellite ‘Anvesha’, is scheduled to be launched at 10.17 am from Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota.
Deep tech start-up EON Space Labs will fly MIRA, described as India’s lightest electro-optical Earth observation payload, on the mission. Weighing just 502 grams, MIRA has been integrated with the 14 kg CubeSat MOI-1 developed by Hyderabad-based start-up TakeMe2Space.
“Four years of relentless passion, innovation and perseverance have led us to this decisive moment. We are not just launching a satellite, but pushing the boundaries of what is possible to make space more accessible and showcase India’s quality space products,” Punit Badeka, co-founder of EON Space Labs, told Deccan Chronicle.
Ronak Samantray, founder of TakeMe2Space, said MOI-1 is designed to democratize access to space-based data intelligence, allowing developers and organizations to run AI workloads in space without owning or operating a satellite.
Adding to Hyderabad’s presence on the mission, Dhruva Space, a full-service aerospace engineering company, announced Polar Access-1 (PA-1), its most integrated launch program to date, enabling 10 space missions on its PSLV-C62 rocket, serving six Indian states and two countries.
Polar Access is designed to provide structured, repeatable access to Sun-synchronous orbit (SSO). The PA-1 program delivers a coordinated, space-qualified stack of four satellites, five separation systems and multiple operational ground stations operated through Dhruva Space’s in-house satellite platforms, launch vehicle integration, separation systems and Ground Station as a Service (GSaaS), for which the company received authorization from IN-SPACe in 2024.
Collectively, missions supported under PA-1 address disaster communications, environmental monitoring, education, and commercial Earth observation, providing downstream benefits for public agencies and users of emerging space technology.
PA-1 also includes Dhruva Space’s own satellite mission, THYBOLT-3, developed on the space-qualified P-DoT platform.
Dhruva Space also provided launch integration, deployment via DSOD-6U and complete ground station and mission operations support for the first commercial satellite of a constellation from a leading Indian customer based in Hyderabad.
Certified to NASA space-grade standards, EON Space Labs’ MIRA is a miniaturized optical system carved from a single block of fused silica, offering enhanced stability, reduced vibration sensitivity, and high-quality imaging in a compact form factor.
The payload supports multispectral imaging in nine bands with a ground sampling distance of 9.2 meters and a domain width of 18.7 km, making it suitable for a variety of applications from environmental monitoring and disaster response to urban analysis and resource mapping.
The mission will also showcase India’s first AI-enabled orbital imagery laboratory, which enables near-real-time, on-orbit processing of Earth observation data, reducing the need for downlinking large volumes of raw imagery.
