Awais Ahmed
@awaisahmedna
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Cupitor Impossibilium. Explorator Incognitorum. Founder and CEO @PixxelSpace.
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Joined March 2016
We’ve been busy! .About to get much busier 🚀.
🛰️ Six Months in Orbit: Update from the world's highest-resolution hyperspectral satellites. As we gear up to launch the next set of Fireflies, here’s a look at what the first three have accomplished in orbit. Read on for the highlights!👇 (1/9).
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RT @PixxelSpace: 🎬 How Pixxel’s First Fireflies Took Flight: A Launch Story 🚀. They’ve completed thousands of orbits since liftoff, deliver….
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Happy Independence Day to all my fellow Indians. 🇮🇳 . 78 years ago, India freed its land. Now, it must free its future. Independence today means building our own rockets, defending our skies with our own systems, and mapping our planet with our own satellites. The era of.
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So there’s a lot of news going around the “zero” bid that the Pixxel consortium put in for the PPP and all that jazz so thought I would clear some things up. Firstly the PPP was set up in such a way that the program was to be predominantly funded by the winning consortium.
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RT @PixxelSpace: Pixxel will lead a first-of-its-kind private consortium to design, build, and operate India’s national Earth Observation c….
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Sweet beginnings indeed! . A very pivotal win for us at @PixxelSpace and our consortium partners @DhruvaSpace @sat_sure and @piersightspace in a first of its kind program to build India’s national EO constellation! 🌍 . Massive thanks to our nation, @GoenkaPk and the @INSPACeIND
Happy to share a pivotal moment for India’s space journey! Under @INSPACeIND #EOPPP, Pixxel-led consortium will invest ₹1,200+ Cr to launch 12 EO satellites.Pvt sector has shown immense confidence. A big step towards achieving Atmanirbharta in space data.
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Please go vote for the Fireflies as the SmallSat Mission of the Year finalist! 🚀 Link in comments.
Fireflies have been nominated as a SmallSat Mission of the Year finalist, and public voting is now open! 🗳️🛰️.Designed to help us better monitor the health of our planet, three Fireflies are already in orbit delivering high-resolution hyperspectral imagery, with three more
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RT @PixxelSpace: All systems go in the integration zone! ✅.Our next three Firefly satellites are now mounted on the integration fixtures, w….
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Oh man that animal is cooked.
Wildlife photographer Sha Lu captures the perfect moment a small animal looks at the camera while being caught by a predator.
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Hasta la vista, baby.
🚀 Delivered. Prepped. Launch-bound. The final Firefly satellites have arrived at the launch site, marking the culmination of years of engineering, teamwork, and perseverance. With three satellites already in orbit, this set completes the initial phase of our hyperspectral
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RT @PixxelSpace: Sharper data. Smarter decisions. Measurable impact. From detecting early crop stress to monitoring water quality and mapp….
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Feels so empty without any Fireflies in the clean room after so long 🥺. Farewell my babies. Godspeed. 🚀 . Time to leave your nest and unravel the mysteries of our planet.
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Here we go again 🎵.
Packed, prepped, and launch-bound (again)!.Our next set of Fireflies have cleared Pre-Shipment Review and are containerised for their ride to the launch site. With three already in orbit, this next batch brings us closer to a fully deployed hyperspectral fleet! 🚛🛰️🔥
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I think one’s team is the single most important factor in how successful a startup will be. Yes - single most. Super grateful and proud to be working with a stellar team at @PixxelSpace that make miracles happen on a weekly basis - whether it is wrenching the most of out of any.
Space tech is still in its early phase, and building for it demands long-term vision and patience. @awaisahmedna, Co-founder & CEO of @PixxelSpace, emphasizes that in industries where the payoff lies decades ahead, it is valuable to learn fast from those who have already walked
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