The Hyderabad-based company charges $2 a minute for computing time on its satellites, and is now raising funds to build a 50 kilowatt data centre in orbit.
A satellite watching the Earth produces vastly more data than it can transmit.
The link to the ground is narrow, the passes over a ground station are short, and most of what the sensor captures is discarded or waits for hours to come down.
The bottleneck is not the camera but the pipe.
Processing the data where it is collected changes that.
If a satellite can run the analysis on board, what comes down is an answer rather than a raw feed, which is smaller, faster and more useful.
The standard approach to satellite imagery is to snap huge batches of pictures and beam them back to Earth, where they can be…
The Bengaluru-based company is developing a constellation of low-cost relay satellites that pass data between imaging satellites…
The Chennai-based company builds compression software that cuts the volume of data a sensor produces at the source, for platforms…
Why Earth observation data is getting stuck in orbit
Indian startups are revolutionizing satellite data delivery, meeting global demand for advanced earth observation across various…
Real satellite imagery, forty-six thousand city lights, and one line of spherical trigonometry that fixed the camera, in about…
