Correct Answer : Digantara Aerospace
Space sector start-up "Digantara" on Tuesday (3rd Jan 2023) launched its second satellite Pushan-Alpha as a rideshare onboard SpaceX’s Transporter-6 mission that soared to the low earth orbit from Cape Canaveral in Florida, US.
* The satellite will serve as a space weather testbed in the sun synchronous orbit for enhancing precision driven situational space awareness applications, Digantara Aerospace founder and CEO Anirudh Sharma told.
* Sharma said the Pushan-Alpha observations will help complement Digantara’s ROBI (ROBust Integrating proton fluence meter) mission, the world’s first commercial space-based space weather monitoring system onboard ISRO’s PSLV-C53 launched on June 30, 2022.
* The Pushan-Alpha mission is named after the Hindu solar deity considered as the god of journeys and protector of travellers.
* The Pushan-Alpha mission has a three-fold objective — to extend radiation measurements to the sun synchronous orbit; to assess mid to high energy particle radiation from the South Atlantic Anomaly; and to investigate any co-relation of atmospheric drag and particle environment for enhanced orbit and debris modelling.
* Bengaluru-based Digantara is developing
end-to-end infrastructure to address the difficulties of space operations and space traffic management through its
Space Mission Assurance Platform..
Source : The Print
