{"id":830413,"date":"2024-07-08T10:05:36","date_gmt":"2024-07-08T04:35:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=830413"},"modified":"2024-07-08T10:05:36","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T04:35:36","slug":"pixxel-hopes-to-deliver-satellites-for-iaf-by-mid-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/07\/08\/pixxel-hopes-to-deliver-satellites-for-iaf-by-mid-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Pixxel hopes to deliver satellites for IAF by mid-2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: The Indian Air Force (IAF) may launch satellites procured from space start-up Pixxel by mid-2025, giving a boost to its capabilities to keep vigil on the country&#8217;s borders and beyond. The IAF has signed a contract with the Bengaluru-headquartered Pixxel Space founded by young entrepreneurs Awais Ahmed and Kshitij Khandelwal of BITS Pilani, while they were pursuing higher studies.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We should have that satellite up in space before the end of 2025, but likely we are aiming at mid-2025,&#8221; Ahmed said in an interaction with PTI editors here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: The Indian Air Force (IAF) may launch satellites procured from space start-up Pixxel by mid-2025, giving a boost to its capabilities to keep vigil on the country&#8217;s borders and beyond. The IAF has signed a contract with the Bengaluru-headquartered Pixxel Space founded by young entrepreneurs Awais Ahmed and Kshitij Khandelwal of BITS Pilani, while they were pursuing higher studies. &#8220;We should have that satellite up in space before the end of 2025, but likely we are aiming at mid-2025,&#8221; Ahmed said in an interaction with PTI editors here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"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-830413","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\/830413","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=830413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=830413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=830413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=830413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}