Hyderabad: Tata Advanced Systems Limited (TASL), an aerospace and defence solutions player, and Satellogic, a geospatial company, Wednesday announced their collaboration for establishing and developing local space technology capabilities in India. This collaboration is a step in TASL’s satellite strategy and a significant milestone for Satellogic as it enters the fast-growing Indian defence and commercial market.
The project will commence with 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 focus will be on manufacturing satellites and developing imagery in India for national defence and commercial applications, for which TASL is commissioning a satellite assembly, integration and test plant at its Vemagal facility in Karnataka.
“Space segment is important to TASL due to its culture of precision that will help other activities in TASL. TASL will work with local SMEs for payloads and other technologies to bolster India content,” said Sukaran Singh, chief executive officer and managing director, TASL.
TASL and Satellogic will collaborate on the development of a new satellite design and work to integrate multiple payloads on a single satellite that will generate a diverse range of data over India.
“This collaboration will accelerate space capacity building for India. It aims to enable advancement of commercial space capabilities and access to critical information for security, sustainability, and energy,” said Emiliano Kargieman, chief executive officer and founder at Satellogic, according to a release.
