Area knowledge firm Pixxel has arrange its area craft manufacturing facility in Bengaluru. The corporate is constructing a constellation of the world’s highest-resolution hyperspectral earth imaging satellites and the analytical instruments to mine insights from the info. The constellation will purpose to supply each day world protection and assist detect, monitor, and predict world phenomena throughout agriculture, mining, atmosphere and power use instances.
The power was inaugurated by ISRO Chairman S. Somanath who lauded the efforts being put in by Pixxel. “The area sector is one thing very powerful when it comes to expertise, market penetration, profitability and many others. Coming to this sector and creating an influence is de facto tough as corporations working on this sector require resilience. Constructing satellites is one factor however constructing a distinct segment or specialisation for an organization over a time period is one thing that’s difficult,” mentioned Somanath through the inauguration of the ability.
Somanath additional added that Pixxel is enjoying an necessary function within the area ecosystem within the nation as they’re into constructing satellites, testing them, commissioning them, launching them and getting the info and including worth to that knowledge. He mentioned that the corporate was additionally enjoying a significant function in bringing satellite tv for pc manufacturing expertise to India.
Pixxel has already deployed three satellites ever since its inception and has prospects equivalent to British Petroleum, the Ministry of Agriculture in India, and the Nationwide Reconnaissance Workplace within the US for the area knowledge that’s generated by them. Pixxel’s satellites concentrate on Hyperspectral imaging that captures info throughout 100s of spectral bands stretching past the seen spectrum into the infrared. By producing voluminous knowledge units able to classifying distinctive spectral signatures for floor supplies, hyperspectral imagery reveals insights which can be invisible to current satellite tv for pc sensors. The corporate plans to launch six satellites as a part of the Firefly constellation by mid of this 12 months (2024). The corporate additionally plans to launch eighteen extra satellites by 2025.
“The inauguration of the brand new facility will bolster our mission to construct a well being monitor for the planet. By rising our capability to construct extra satellites, we are going to ship much more vital knowledge to our prospects sooner to allow them to make knowledgeable choices and tackle the wants of key industries equivalent to agriculture, power, forestry, and environmental monitoring,” mentioned Awais Ahmed, CEO, Pixxel.
At full capability, the ability is provided to deal with greater than twenty satellites concurrently that may be circled inside a timeframe of six months, making a complete capability of forty giant satellites per 12 months doable. The power is designed, with two fashionable clear rooms of ISO Class 7 and ISO Class 8 that safeguard towards contaminants that would impair satellite tv for pc performance through the satellite tv for pc meeting and integration course of. Moreover, it additionally homes labs for superior digicam integration, electronics R&D, and electrical meeting; together with a mechanical workshop, a mission management room, and an workplace area that may accommodate greater than 200 staff.
The brand new facility, spans greater than 30,000 sq ft, consolidates all satellite tv for pc manufacturing providers, offering an entire Spacecraft Meeting, Integration, and Testing (AIT) facility beneath one roof. The power has a streamlined manufacturing course of from idea to launch and can assist Pixxel to design satellites from scratch, manufactured, built-in, and examined for launch circumstances earlier than being shipped to the launch web site.
Pixxel has labored with organisations such because the Indian Area Analysis Group, NASA JPL, and SpaceX amongst different area corporations. The organisation is backed by Google, Lightspeed, Radical Ventures, Relativity’s Jordan Noone, Seraphim Capital, Ryan Johnson, Blume Ventures, Sparta LLC and Accenture amongst others.
