New Delhi, July 2 -- Agnikul Cosmos, a Chennai-based space company, signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Finland-based space technology company ICEYE to build, launch and operate Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) earth observation systems from India.
SAR is a special type of radar that enables satellites to take detailed pictures of the Earth in any weather, at any time of day or night, using radio waves.
The MoU was signed at Bharat Innovates in Nice, France, earlier this month.
"Previously, building and launching a satellite system privately in India mostly meant piecing together foreign technology and waiting on timelines that we as a nation did not control," said Srinath Ravichandran, Co-founder and CEO of Agnikul Cosmos.
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