Indian startup PierSight unveils 1st all-weather maritime surveillance satellite

Indian abstraction tech startup PierSight connected Wednesday announced the Varuna outer that volition present 24/7 all-weather maritime surveillance.

The Varuna ngo that aims to redefine maritime quality with an in-orbit objection of groundbreaking imaging exertion is the archetypal measurement by PierSight to found a constellation of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) and Automatic Identification System (AIS) satellites.

The SAR & AIS outer constellation volition supply 100 per cent water sum with up to 30-minute revisit times. Unlike accepted optical satellites, Synthetic Aperture Radars aboard the outer tin spot adjacent done unreality cover, utmost weather, and nighttime.

This enables PierSight's dedicated maritime-focused constellation to connection persistent monitoring, a captious instrumentality to accurately way vessel movements, observe lipid spills, and geo-fencing captious infrastructure specified arsenic undersea cables and pipelines.

Developed successful an unprecedented 9 months, Varuna is equipped with breakthrough technologies, including a SAR strategy successful CubeSAT format and an indigenously developed reflectarray antenna, showcasing the archetypal backstage SAR outer in-orbit objection from India.

"Technology readiness level (TRL) is defined connected a standard of 1 to 9 (with 9 being the highest). With Varuna, we volition execute TRL-9 for each subsystems. This volition show flightworthiness for each aboriginal missions," said Vinit Bansal, CTO and Co-founder, PierSight.

PierSight is co-founded by ex-ISRO idiosyncratic Gaurav Seth and Bansal who is an ex-national instruments engineer. The outer features a deployable reflectarray antenna and a modular Software-Defined Radar & Radio (SDRR), innovations important for enhancing outer adaptability and aboriginal operational needs.

Varuna besides exemplifies PierSight's accelerated deployment capabilities, mounting caller standards successful the manufacture wherever 18-24 months is the norm."This accelerated improvement demonstrates our quality to respond swiftly to the urgent needs for biology and information surveillance," said Gaurav Seth, CEO and Co-founder of PierSight.

"We are mounting caller standards successful the manufacture by rapidly advancing from conception to flight-readiness successful specified a abbreviated span. Our existing and imaginable customers are funny successful launch-on-demand capabilities; Varuna is simply a objection of this capability.

"Varuna volition alert aboard the ISRO's PSLV launcher arsenic a secondary payload aboard the POEM platform. ISRO is yet to denote the date, however, it is slated for motorboat wrong the year.