Want a satellite picture of your backyard? Bengaluru start-up offers you a chance
Pixxel plans to unveil an online software suite to browse through images of earth captured by its satellites and also order customised pictures.
In an interaction with PTI editors, Pixxel Space Chief Executive Officer and co-founder Awais Ahmed said the start-up's earth observation studio ' Aurora' was part of efforts to make space-based data accessible to the common person for a small fee.
Pixxel's earth observation studio is expected to go live later this year and make the hyperspectral images of the earth taken by its satellites and data analysis accessible to everyone.
How to capture satelitte images?
«It would be as simple as using Google Earth but pictures and satellite imagery would be much more advanced,» Ahmed, the 26-year-old CEO, who is among the handful of entrepreneurs who are making a mark in the space sector which was opened to private players about four years ago, said.
Users of the Aurora suite can browse through the satellite images already available in the database or place a «tasking order» for Pixxel's satellites going around the earth in the lower earth orbit.
«I want to order an image for say Chikmagalur in the next week or next two weeks, then it will go to our satellites and they will deliver it, as long as you can pay for it,» Ahmed, who built the first satellite while still completing his masters in mathematics from BITS Pilani, said.
For the said task of capturing images, Pixxel has launched two satellites — Shakuntala and Anand. The two satellites will capture images of the earth
