Pixxel To Launch Six Satellites in 2024, 18 By 2025: Pixxel CEO By CIOTechOutlook Team

Pixxel To Launch Six Satellites in 2024, 18 By 2025: Pixxel CEO

CIOTechOutlook Team | Monday, 25 December 2023, 02:21 IST

Pixxel, a Bengaluru-based space data startup, plans to launch six satellites in 2024 and 18 satellites by 2025, according to its founder CEO Awais Ahmed.

Ahmed added ahead of Pixxel’s inauguration of its spacecraft manufacturing facility in the city soon. The company is nearly five years old now, as per economic times.

Fireflies is a satellite constellation with high-resolution cameras and a larger gathering capacity that will remain in orbit for ten years. Honeybees is another satellite constellation that will improve image resolution and the wavelength range of Pixxel's satellites.

The constellation's goal is to give global coverage every 24 hours and to aid in the detection, monitoring, and prediction of global phenomena in agriculture, mining, the environment, and energy usage applications. Pixxel already has three hyperspectral satellites in orbit with a three-year lifespan, Anand and Shakuntala.

The business intends to launch 24 satellites by 2025. The first phase of both of these constellations will be launched in 2024. Phase two of Firefly and Honeybee is set to begin in 2025. There will be 18 Fireflies and six Honeybees in total.

Pixxel used Elon Musk's SpaceX Falcon-9 rocket to launch its hyperspectral imaging satellite Shakuntala. This satellite, which was launched in April of last year, is designed to monitor climate change. Anand, the third satellite, was launched in November 2022.

Almost 1.8 years after the launch of Shakuntala and a year after the launch of Anand, he stated that they were receiving hyperspectral data with a resolution of 10 meters and that there was no other source of data in Space that could beam down data with a resolution of hundreds of wavelengths.