EON Space Labs is building India’s indigenous optical payloads after Falcon 9 Success
EON Space Labs has spent the last few years building optical systems for satellites, drones, and ground-based platforms, with a focus on reducing India’s dependence on imported imaging technologies.
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The Hyderabad-based startup has now crossed an important milestone with Mira, its flagship earth-observation payload, reaching orbit aboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9 Transporter-18 mission on October 2, 2026. The company expects to receive its first images in the next 10 days.
For Punit Badeka, Co-founder and COO of EON Space Labs, the mission is also about establishing indigenous capability.
“This proves and enables us to make sure that now the product is indigenised. We do not claim it. We prove that…
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