Hyderabad Start-ups Power Multiple Missions On Isro’s PSLV-C62 Launch
Deep-tech start-up EON Space Labs will fly MIRA
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.
