Pixxel partners with NSIL to launch a remote-sensing satellite on ISRO rocket early next year

India’s first private satellite-imaging company, Pixxel has entered into an agreement with NewSpace India Limited (NSIL), a Central Public Sector Enterprise of Government of India and the commercial arm of ISRO, to launch Pixxel’s first remote-sensing satellite on an ISRO PSLV rocket in early 2021. This first-of-a-kind private earth-observation mission will help provide solutions to many pressing environmental and agricultural issues.  

The agreement is one of its kind and follows the establishment of IN-SPACe, the authorisation and regulatory body under the Department of Space (DOS), to enable private players to undertake space activities in India.