New Delhi: The first in the world Commercial Space Surveillance Satellite Of an Indian startup, capable of tracking objects as small as 5 cm that orbit the land, was commissioned on Saturday while capturing images about South America.
“The space was left without hiding”, Bengaluru start-up Signal Said in an X publication while its Scot Satellite (Space Chamber for Objects Monitoring) began operations. Digantara had launched Scot on January 14 aboard the Transporter-12 rocket of Spacex, owned by Elon Musk,.
In a statement, the company said the Scot satellite reached the first light on Saturday and its inaugural image while passing through South America, an impressive view of the Earth’s limb, with the city of Buenos Aires that shone against the curvature of the planet.
In the first satellite show, the CEO of Digantara, Anirudh Sharma, published in X, “an image of possibility, Future of Space Based SSA. When we started, the doubt was our first partner. Was it possible for us to achieve what we had proposed to do? The space does not reward doubt. It requires precision, resilience and belief, especially when probabilities seem impossible. And yet, here we are. The first raw image of Scot-1 clicks on South America! “
The CEO also said: “Scot’s first image is more than a technical milestone; it is a symbol of our team’s resistance and the unwavering commitment of safeguarding the orbits of the Earth for coming generations.”
Shortly after the launch of the Scot satellite in January, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had congratulated the startup and published in X: “Congratulations to Start of the Indian space @Digantarahq about the success of Mission Scot. This is an important contribution of the growing Indian space industry to improve Awareness of the spatial situation. “
The satellite is designed to track and monitor objects as small as 5 cm, with a high review rate for frequent and precise observations of orbital activity. As space becomes more and more congested, this advanced capacity is essential to mitigate the risks of collision and promote sustainable spatial operations in providing precise and reliable data to satellite operators and regulatory bodies.
The former president of Isro, S Somanath, congratulated “Digantarahq for making a dream come true. Having our own SSA capacity based on the space demonstrated by Scot-1”.
Scot has been implemented in a solar synchronous orbit that allows it to trace objects into low terrestrial orbit more efficiently than existing sensors, which are restricted by vision fields, climatic conditions and geographical limitations.
