TakeMe2Space to Fly India's First Orbital Data Centre Mission Aboard SpaceX Falcon 9 in 2028

Key facts

• Hyderabad-based spacetech startup TakeMe2Space will launch India's first networked orbital data centre mission on SpaceX's Falcon 9 in 2028, carrying two 100 kg MOI constellation satellites.
• Each 100 kg satellite will carry 10 Nvidia Thor GPUs, 100 TB of storage, a one-metre multispectral imager, and generate about 1.5 kW of power.
• Optical inter-satellite links will let the two satellites share workloads and data, testing whether two spacecraft can operate as a distributed computer.
• The satellites will ride the Waymaker-2 rideshare mission on Falcon 9 to a roughly 500-km sun-synchronous orbit, with capacity secured by Paris-based RIDE! Space in partnership with SEOPS.
• The satellites will collect and process Earth-observation data in orbit, delivering products like flood maps, ship counts, or crop-stress analysis via the OrbitLab platform instead of downlinking raw imagery.
• The mission will demonstrate precision attitude control using domestically developed reaction wheels, star trackers, and fine sun sensors, including the StarSense star tracker introduced in June with IN-SPACe's Technology Adoption Fund support.
• TakeMe2Space's MOI-1a mission is scheduled for October 1, 2026 on SpaceX's Transporter-18 mission, with MOI-1b to follow on an ISRO SSLV mission later in the year.
• The company lost its MOI-1 satellite in the PSLV-C62 launch failure in January 2026, and proved its PowerBank-50 satellite battery on Skyroot Aerospace's Vikram-1 launch on July 18, 2026.