Hyderabad, Jan. 11 -- Hyderabad has emerged as a key contributor to ISRO's PSLV-C62 mission, with city-based startups and even school students supplying satellites and advanced payloads for the launch scheduled on Monday from Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh.

Among the contributors is space engineering startup Dhruva Space, which is flying its Polar Access-1 (PA-1) Mission, enabling 10 customer missions on a single launch.

The mission includes Dhruva Space's own disaster communication satellite, THYBOLT-3, and provides ground infrastructure and operational support to payloads from across India and abroad.

Deeptech startup Eon Space Labs, in collaboration with TakeMe2Space, has developed MOI-1, a 14-kg CubeSat described as India's first "AI ...