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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

Projected
  1. 2027

    First 12 nodes launched

  2. 2028

    Global 30-min coverage

  3. 2030

    Full 2,000-node mesh