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The special thing about the
Fireflies is that they are the
world's highest resolution
hyperspectral satellites.
Hyperspectral data enables
us to see things in a 50 times
richer detail per image
compared to normal satellites.
For example, if you are looking
at an agricultural farmland,
you will be able to identify not
just the fact that it’s a farm,
but be able to identify what
are the soil nutrients; if there
is any crop disease or pest
infestation.

- Awais Ahmed, Founder & CEO, Pixxel Space

One of the nice things about
space technologies is that
you’re actually thinking very
differently. For the development
of technologies on earth, we have
all the resources around us, like
water and other materials. But
boundaries in space are very
different, for which we have
to think in a different way. For
example, we will develop new
technologies which we have
never thought of.
-Dr Sathyan Subbiah, Professor, Department
of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Madras
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