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 multiple city-based start-ups contributing key payloads and missions to Monday’s rocket launch from the spaceport at Sriharikota.The PSLV-DL-C62, carrying ‘Anvesha’ a DRDO-designed earth observation satellite, is scheduled for launch at 10.17 am from the 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, aboard the mission. Weighing just 502 grams, MIRA has been integrated with MOI-1, a 14-kg CubeSat developed by fellow Hyderabad-based start-up TakeMe2Space.Punit Badeka, co-founder of EON Space Labs, told Deccan Chronicle, “Four years of relentless passion, innovation and perseverance have led us to this defining 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.”Ronak Samantray, founder of TakeMe2Space, said MOI-1 was designed to democratise access to space-based data intelligence, allowing developers and organisations to run AI workloads in space without owning or operating a satellite.Adding to Hyderabad’s presence on the mission, Dhruva Space, a full-stack space engineering company, announced Polar Access-1 (PA-1), its most integrated launch programme to date, enabling 10 space missions serving six Indian states and two nations aboard the PSLV-C62 rocket.Polar Access is designed to provide structured, repeatable access to Sun-synchronous orbit (SSO). The PA-1 programme delivers a coordinated, space-qualified stack of four satellites, five separation systems and multiple operational ground stations, executed 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 authorisation from IN-SPACe in 2024.Collectively, the missions supported under PA-1 address disaster communication, environmental monitoring, education and commercial Earth observation, with downstream benefits for public institutions and emerging space technology users.PA-1 also includes THYBOLT-3, Dhruva Space’s own satellite mission developed on its space-qualified P-DoT platform.Dhruva Space has also provided launch integration, deployment through DSOD-6U, and complete ground-station and mission-operations support for the first commercial satellite of a constellation from a leading Hyderabad-based Indian customer.Certified to NASA space-grade standards, MIRA of EON Space Labs is a miniaturised optical system carved from a single block of fused silica, offering enhanced stability, reduced vibration sensitivity and high-quality imaging within a compact form factor.The payload supports multispectral imaging across nine bands, with a ground sampling distance of 9.2 metres and a swath width of 18.7 km, making it suitable for applications ranging from environmental monitoring and disaster response to urban analysis and resource mapping.The mission will also demonstrate India’s first AI-powered orbital image laboratory, enabling near real-time, in-orbit processing of Earth observation data and reducing the need to downlink large volumes of raw imagery.



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