TakeMe2Space signs deal to fly India's first networked orbital data centre on SpaceX Falcon 9 in 2028
Hyderabad start-up's two 100kg MOI satellites, each with 10 Nvidia Thor GPUs and laser links, booked on the Waymaker 2 rideshare via RIDE! space.
Hyderabad-based spacetech start-up TakeMe2Space has signed a launch service agreement to fly what it says will be India’s first networked orbital data centre aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 in late 2028, putting the Indian company on the timeline of a global race to move computing into orbit.
The mission, designated MOI (My Orbital Infrastructure), will fly two 100-kilogram Generation-2 satellites as part of the Waymaker 2 dedicated rideshare programme to a 500-kilometre sun-synchronous orbit, with the slot secured through Paris-based launch mission manager RIDE! space.
Each satellite will generate about 1.5 kilowatts of power to run 10 Nvidia Thor graphics processors and 100 terabytes of onboard storage, linked by optical inter-satellite (laser) links so workloads and data can be shared between the pair — a distributed computing infrastructure in space rather than standalone orbital computers.
The first application is Earth observation: each satellite carries a multispectral imager with about 1-metre resolution, while the company’s OrbitLab platform processes imagery directly in orbit so users receive crop-stress maps, flood maps or ship counts rather than raw frames.
Founder and CEO Ronak Kumar Samantray said: “Everything we have flown so far has been about proving that compute belongs in orbit. These two satellites are about proving it at a scale that pays.”
The agreement follows a $5 million seed round led by Chiratae Ventures. The company’s MOI-1 satellite was lost in the PSLV-C62 launch failure in January; its MOI-1a satellite is scheduled to launch on October 1 on SpaceX’s Transporter-18 mission.
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