Azista BST Aerospace (ABA), which aims to mass manufacture satellites in India for the global market, will launch its first satellite ABAFirst Runner (AFR) onboard a SpaceXFalcon9 rocket on Tuesday (June 13) at 2.49am as part of the Transporter 8 Mission.
ABA is a joint venture between Azista Industries and Berlin Space Technologies. The firm owns and operates a factory in Ahmedabad, India, for manufacturing small satellites.
The firm is already in the process of realising the next set of satellites to demonstrate its capabilities with versatile payloads with its modular satellite buses. Several of these satellites will be launched within the next 12-24 months to establish space heritage and solidify vertically integrated production capabilities from India.