Hyderabad-based TakeMe2Space will fly two networked computing satellites on a SpaceX rocket in late 2028 to test distributed computing in orbit.

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• Hyderabad-based spacetech startup TakeMe2Space will fly what it calls India's first networked orbital data centre mission on a SpaceX Falcon 9 in late 2028.
• The mission carries two 100 kg satellites from the company's My Orbital Infrastructure (MOI) constellation.
• A launch service agreement with Paris-based mission manager RIDE! Space secured the slot on the Waymaker 2 rideshare mission operated by SEOPS.
• The satellites will be placed in a sun-synchronous orbit at an altitude of about 500 kilometres.
• Optical inter-satellite links will let the two spacecraft exchange data and divide computing workloads between them.
• Each satellite is designed to carry NVIDIA Thor GPUs, 100 TB of storage and 1.5 kW of power.
• Processing data in orbit aims to avoid sending raw Earth observation data to ground stations, with uses such as agriculture and maritime monitoring.
• The pointing systems use domestically developed reaction wheels, fine sun sensors and the StarSense star tracker, backed by IN-SPACe's Technology Adoption Fund.
• The company plans a six-satellite constellation offering about 5 kW of orbital compute, followed by a 50 kW orbital data centre platform.
• TakeMe2Space raised a $5 million seed round led by Chiratae Ventures, and its earlier MOI-1a satellite is scheduled to launch on 1 October aboard SpaceX's Transporter-18 mission.
• The 2028 mission follows a mixed run of technical progress and setbacks, including a satellite mission loss earlier this year.
• The mission will test whether private Indian space firms can build distributed computing infrastructure in orbit.