Tata Advanced and Satellogic Partner to Develop Local Space Tech By CIOTechOutlook Team

Tata Advanced and Satellogic Partner to Develop Local Space Tech

CIOTechOutlook Team | Thursday, 30 November 2023, 02:29 IST

Tata Advanced Systems Ltd, a provider of aerospace and defense systems, announced a cooperation with Satellogic Inc to build and enhance indigenous space technology capabilities in India.

The partnership with Satellogic -- a leader in sub-metre resolution Earth Observation (EO) data collection, is a first step in the company's satellite strategy, Tata Advanced Systems Ltd (TASL) said in a statement. For Satellogic it is a significant milestone as it enters the fast-growing Indian defence and commercial market, it added, as per businessstandard.

TASL and Satellogic will work together to build a novel satellite architecture and combine numerous payloads on a single satellite to generate a varied variety of data over India.

"The project will commence with comprehensive training, knowledge transfer, and local assembly of optical sub-metre resolution EO satellites, the first of which is planned to be launched as TSAT-1A," the statement said.

The emphasis would be on producing images and manufacturing satellites in India for national defense and commercial purposes, with TASL establishing a satellite AIT factory at its Vemagal location in Karnataka to that end.

Sukaran Singh, CEO and Managing Director of TASL, described Satellogic as having best-in-class technology and an entrepreneurial spirit.

"Additionally, TASL will also work with local SMEs for payloads and other technologies to bolster India content," Singh added.

Satellogic CEO and Founder Emiliano Kargieman said, "This collaboration will accelerate space capacity building for one of the largest nations in the world with the goal of enabling the advancement of commercial space capabilities and greater access to critical information for a range of applications such as security, sustainability, and energy."