{"id":1042261,"date":"2026-10-10T09:04:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T03:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1042261"},"modified":"2026-10-10T09:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T03:44:08","slug":"etsa-2026-middle-east-tensions-hit-space-supply-chains-says-pixxel-cto-kshitij-khandelwal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/10\/etsa-2026-middle-east-tensions-hit-space-supply-chains-says-pixxel-cto-kshitij-khandelwal\/","title":{"rendered":"ETSA 2026: Middle East tensions hit space supply chains, says Pixxel CTO Kshitij Khandelwal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Middle East tensions are making it difficult for space companies to source key components, increasing supply chain challenges for the sector, Kshitij Khandelwal, cofounder and chief technology officer (CTO) of spacetech startup Pixxel, said at the ET Startups Awards 2026 on Friday. <\/p>\n<p>Speaking at a panel discussion at the Bengaluru event, Khandelwal said the availability of components such as detectors had become a challenge, affecting the supply of equipment used in space and airborne sensing systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Middle East tensions are making it difficult for space companies to source key components, increasing supply chain challenges for the sector, Kshitij Khandelwal, cofounder and chief technology officer (CTO) of spacetech startup Pixxel, said at the ET Startups Awards 2026 on Friday. Speaking at a panel discussion at the Bengaluru event, Khandelwal said the availability of components such as detectors had become a challenge, affecting the supply of equipment used in space and airborne sensing systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1042261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1042261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1042286,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042261\/revisions\/1042286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1042261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1042261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1042261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}