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First Private Satellite Constellation
January 18 , 2025
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- A Bengaluru-based space startup has made history by giving India the first private earth imaging satellite constellation.
- The constellation -'Firefly' - has been developed by Pixxel.
- In April 2022, they launched 'Shakuntala', India's first private Earth-imaging hyperspectral satellite.
- Three 'Firefly' satellites were launched into 550-kilometre low Earth orbit, using a SpaceX Falcon-9 rocket.
- The 'Fireflies', is the world's highest-resolution commercial-grade hyperspectral satellites currently.
- ISRO has about 52 different satellites in space.
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