Indian Space Startups Put Three Payloads on Transporter-18

SpaceX’s Transporter-18 lifted off from California carrying payloads from Indian startups TakeMe2Space, SatLeo Labs and EON Space Labs. TakeMe2Space’s MOI-1A satellite carried EON’s MIRA imaging system, while SatLeo’s TAPAS-1 flew aboard Dhruva Space’s LEAP-2. The important shift is from plans to hardware in orbit: Indian private-sector teams are testing AI-computing and Earth-observation technologies in space. It is a meaningful step, though not yet proof of what those systems...