Hyderabad-based TakeMe2Space has announced plans to fly India’s first networked orbital data center mission aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 in late 2028. The company signed a Launch Service Agreement with RIDE! Space for two 100 kilogram MOI constellation satellites on the Waymaker 2 rideshare mission. The flight aims to show two spacecraft can operate as one computing platform.
Mission and Launch Details
TakeMe2Space signed a Launch Service Agreement with RIDE! Space to fly two 100 kilogram MOI constellation satellites on the Waymaker 2 mission in late 2028. Waymaker 2 is the second mission in the dedicated rideshare program operated by SEOPS and will launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 to a sun-synchronous orbit at approximately 500 kilometers. RIDE! Space, a Paris-based launch mission management company, secured the slot for the Hyderabad-based startup.
Satellite Specifications
Each satellite is expected to generate and handle about 1.5 kilowatts of power, host 10 Nvidia Thor GPUs, and carry 100 terabytes of storage. A multispectral imager provides about one meter ground sampling distance. Optical inter-satellite links will connect the pair, making this India’s first mission designed to network computing across spacecraft rather than run it on a single satellite.
Distributed Computing Goals
The satellites are technology demonstrators for the next generation of orbital data center spacecraft. Their primary objective is to run high-performance computing in orbit and process data where it is generated instead of transmitting large volumes of raw imagery to ground stations. This approach can address a common bottleneck: downlink time, not sensor capacity, often limits how much satellite data reaches a user.
Leadership Perspective
Ronak Kumar Samantray, founder and chief executive officer of TakeMe2Space, said earlier flights proved compute belongs in orbit. He added that these two satellites are about proving it at a scale that pays, describing 1.5 kilowatts of power, a one meter imager, and a laser link between spacecraft as the smallest unit of an orbital data center. The mission will also test whether two spacecraft can share workloads as one system.
Technology and Cost Choices
The power system uses silicon solar cells rather than gallium arsenide cells, which are more expensive. This reduces satellite cost and could translate into lower prices for customers running workloads on the platform. The mission will also demonstrate precision attitude control through an Indian-designed architecture built on reaction wheels, star trackers, and fine sun sensors, including the StarSense star tracker supported by IN-SPACe.
Global Orbital Computing Race
TakeMe2Space is part of a global push to move computing into orbit. Starcloud in the United States flew the first Nvidia Hopper 100 GPU in space in November 2025 and has since raised US$170 million, while Google expects to fly prototype Project Suncatcher satellites with Planet Labs by early 2027. Most efforts involve one spacecraft with a large processor, so Waymaker 2 tests whether two spacecraft can behave as one computer.
Funding and Company Roadmap
The agreement follows a year in which TakeMe2Space closed a US$5 million seed round led by Chiratae Ventures and lost its MOI-1 satellite in the PSLV-C62 launch failure in January 2026. The company scheduled MOI-1a for October 1, 2026 on SpaceX’s Transporter-18 mission and MOI-1b later in 2026, while its PowerBank-50 battery earned flight heritage on Skyroot’s Vikram-1 in July. Its roadmap moves from one spacecraft to a constellation delivering about 5 kilowatts, with a longer-term target of 50 kilowatts.
By securing this mission, TakeMe2Space moves beyond single-satellite demonstrations and positions an Indian company within the emerging orbital data center market. A successful flight would validate distributed computing across platforms and support the company's plan for a larger constellation. The late 2028 mission is therefore a critical step between early technology demonstrations and the commercial orbital data center infrastructure the company ultimately wants to build.