Hyderabad Startup TakeMe2Space To Launch India’s First Orbital Data Centre Mission On SpaceX Falcon 9 In 2028

Hyderabad-based startup TakeMe2Space is set to launch India’s inaugural orbital data centre mission using SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket in 2028. The project involves a six-satellite constellation designed to provide computing infrastructure in space. As part of the Waymaker 2 rideshare mission, two 100-kg My Orbital Infrastructure (MOI) satellites will be deployed under a launch agreement with RIDE! space.

The mission, scheduled for late 2028, aims to demonstrate the feasibility of a fully functional orbital data centre at a payback scale. Founder and CEO Ronak Kumar Samantray emphasized that the two satellites will each generate 1.5 kilowatts of power and carry Nvidia Thor GPUs, along with 100 terabytes of storage. Optical inter-satellite links will enable the satellites to share workloads and data, marking India’s first mission to network computing capabilities across multiple spacecraft.

TakeMe2Space’s earlier MOI-TD mission in December 2024 conducted over 20 experiments in low Earth orbit and resulted in the loss of the MOI-1 satellite during the PSLV-C62 launch failure in January 2026. The upcoming satellites aim to showcase high-performance computing in orbit by processing data closer to its source, potentially reducing the need to transmit large amounts of raw satellite data to ground stations with limited downlink capacity.