New Delhi, June 18 -- Pixxel Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer Kshitij Khandelwal has said that acquiring land for a satellite manufacturing facility on the outskirts of Bengaluru proved to be far more difficult than building the satellites themselves.

The CTO highlighted the infrastructure and administrative hurdles encountered by advanced technology and aerospace startups when expanding their physical operations in the Bengaluru region.

"Trying to get land for making a satellite factory in the outskirts of BLR has been way more difficult than actually making said satellites," Khandelwal stated on X.

The public statement regarding the manufacturing constraints immediately prompted reactions from regional administrators who sough...