Pixxel-led consortium bags L1 bid in India’s first EO-PPP, Rs 1,200 crore project

In a first for India’s space ecosystem, Bengaluru-based space startup Pixxel and its partners Piersight Space, Satsure Analytics, and Dhruva Space have won the bid to design, build, and operate the country’s first fully indigenous commercial earth observation (EO) satellite constellation under the Indian National Space Promotion and Authorisation Centre’s (IN-SPACe) public-private partnership (EO-PPP) model.

The programme will help reduce India’s reliance on foreign sources and ensure data sovereignty.

The space promoter-cum-regulator on…