Transporter-18 Carries Three Indian Private-Space Capabilities Up - and Shows Which Parts Are Still Imported

Transporter-18 lifted off on 1 October (US time) with three Indian private-space payloads aboard: TakeMe2Space's orbital-computing satellite MOI-1A, SatLeo Labs' thermal-imaging CubeSat TAPAS-1 and Dhruva Space's LEAP-2 hosted-payload mission. The mix shows Indian firms moving into compute, sensing and mission integration, while the chips, star tracker and launcher are still foreign.