Pixxel co-founder and CEO Awais Ahmed on what it takes to build and run a space tech company in India.
It’s late one April evening in Bengaluru. In a small room that serves as the office of space technology startup Pixxel, a few employees, their friends and families, some engineers, investors and scientists have gathered, their eyes glued to a big screen that shows live footage from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. A rocket is going to launch any moment now.
For everyone involved, it’s been a stressful day. Until an hour ago, they weren’t sure if the rocket would launch at all—given the thunderstorms, there was only a 25% chance, according to the US government. Soon, the weather …
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