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Vasudha Orbiter
A watchtower for a living planet.
Vasudha is Earth's nervous system in orbit — a constellation of listening, seeing, and speaking to our home in real time.
Mission purpose
Hyperspectral observation, climate telemetry, and civilian communications backbone.
Vasudha means 'she who holds all wealth.' The wealth we hold is data — of glaciers, of forests, of every heartbeat of weather.
Each orbiter is a 400 kg node in a swarm of 2,000, weaving a real-time map of the biosphere accessible to any student, farmer, or scientist.
Specifications
Nominal- Constellation
- 2,000 nodes
- Mass / node
- 412 kg
- Orbit
- 540 km SSO
- Revisit rate
- 12 min
- Downlink
- Optical mesh, 100 Gbps
Core systems
- ◆Hyperspectral imager (400–2500 nm)
- ◆SAR secondary payload
- ◆Inter-satellite laser links
- ◆Public data API
Flight timeline
Projected2027
First 12 nodes launched
2028
Global 30-min coverage
2030
Full 2,000-node mesh