{"id":678594,"date":"2026-09-08T13:39:33","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T13:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/678594\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T13:39:33","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T13:39:33","slug":"temasek-backed-indian-satellite-startup-aims-to-quadruple-output-capacity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/678594\/","title":{"rendered":"Temasek-backed Indian satellite startup aims to quadruple output capacity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/editor-s-picks\/interview\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Interview<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Pixxel&#8217;s record-setting $100m round to support new high-tech imaging satellites<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/6\/2.jpeg\" alt=\"20260908 pixxel ceo reuters\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Pixxel chief executive Awais Ahmed told Nikkei Asia that about three-quarters of Pixxel&#8217;s current client base is from outside India, and these customers contribute about half of its total revenue. \u00a9 Reuters<\/p>\n<p>SOUMYAJIT SAHA<\/p>\n<p>September 8, 2026 16:07 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">MUMBAI &#8212; Indian startup Pixxel, which makes high-tech imaging satellites, hopes to more than quadruple its manufacturing capacity to 100 satellites per quarter by next year, CEO Awais Ahmed told Nikkei Asia after completing a $100 million funding round &#8212; the largest-ever by a private space company in India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Interview Pixxel&#8217;s record-setting $100m round to support new high-tech imaging satellites Pixxel chief executive Awais Ahmed told Nikkei&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":678595,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[270],"tags":[49123,83909,18,19,5259,17,77466,287210,3021,133,451,934,287209],"class_list":["post-678594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-aims","tag-capacity","tag-eire","tag-ie","tag-indian","tag-ireland","tag-output","tag-quadruple","tag-satellite","tag-science","tag-space","tag-startup","tag-temasek-backed"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117235703622823065","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=678594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/678595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}