Imagine a car that still runs perfectly but gets dumped because the tank is empty. That is how many satellites die. Satellites often die because they run out of fuel, not because the electronics fail.
Refueling and repositioning them can add years of service, delay replacement launches, and cut debris.
OrbitAID’s pitch is “orbital fuel stations”: tanker style servicing instead of throwing away working satellites.
Chennai based OrbitAID Aerospace is the first Indian company to try this end to end in space. In early 2027 it plans to send two small satellites into low Earth orbit together. One is the chaser. The other is the target.
The chaser looks at the target with sensors, flies close, docks using its own docking and fuel port, pumps fuel across, then boosts the target to a higher orbit. One flight. Inspect, meet, dock, refuel, extend life.
Very few countries can do this. China has shown in orbit refueling. The United States has tested pieces of the puzzle and is preparing bigger demos. Almost no one else has put a full private servicing chain in orbit.
If OrbitAID succeeds, India joins that tiny club with a homegrown private team, not only a government lab.
That matters. India is putting more satellites up for communication, weather, navigation and defence. Each new launch is costly. If old satellites can live longer, India saves money, keeps services running, and leaves less junk in orbit.
It also means Indian operators will not have to wait for a foreign tanker to come and fill their tanks.
Chennai is quietly becoming a real deep tech and space city. Tamil Nadu has backed space startups, launch firms and a planned space industrial zone in the south.
OrbitAID grew with state startup support and is now aiming at a global servicing market from that same city. Rockets from nearby, satellites from here, fuel stations in orbit next.
Simple idea. Hard job. Two Indian satellites meet in space, one fills the other, both keep working. If it flies, space stops being throwaway.
CJP ko 37 din Jantar Mantar pe protest karne diya.
Reservation Hatao wale pehle din hi detain ho rahe hain.
Same ground.
Same police.
Alag treatment.
Ek taraf “students” ban ke 37 din drama,
doosri taraf pehle din hi utha liya.
The Modi-hating anarchists pleaded 3 hours for permission to protest at Jantar Mantar. They were granted it.
The Modi-loving nationalists pleaded 30 days for permission to protest at Jantar Mantar. They were denied it.
Without abusing PM or CM
Without any stone pelting
Without any Azaadi slogans
Without any attacks on police
Without any food, reel sponsors
Without any Antihindu Statements
Jharkhand Students have won!
They have shown what a real fight looks like.
Imagine a workplace, where you reach at 11am, pour yourself a cup of coffee, reach your desk, then you signal your entire team, they start shouting & sloganeering on the floor. The HR head appears, and suspends office for 3 hours, you guys go out, roam around, come back at 2pm, shout again, HR cancels the entire day. People go home. All of them get full salary.
This is our Parliament.
Harsh Dubey announces a Reservation Reform protest at Jantar Mantar!
He has been granted permission by the Delhi Police to hold a protest for the Reservation Reform movement at Jantar Mantar from 21st August.
If this movement gains momentum, it could create even more drama than the CJP protest?
One year since this audacity.
The victim is bedridden, disoriented, and surviving solely on support, fed through a Ryles tube and requiring round-the-clock nursing and specialized care just to stay alive.. As a family of four with only one earner, they’ve exhausted their savings and borrowed heavily to cover monthly medical bills running into lakhs. They are now crowdfunding, having received no support from the accused’s family.
Meanwhile, the accused is out on bail. The case drags on with long adjournments, and according to a post in r/jammu, the High Court has interim-stayed proceedings under Section 109 (attempt to murder), though I couldn't independently verify this.
What should have been an open-and-shut case will be dragged out for years. Once public memory fades and the family loses the spirit to fight, which they already have, the accused will walk away without consequences.
This Is How Real Students Protest:
• They protest during the day and study at night to cover the backlog.
• They are not demanding anyone’s resignation, only a re-examination with transparency.
• They are not abusing any political leader or their family.
• No abusive placards. No reel-making for publicity.
Jharkhand is doing much better than Delhi.
Remember how CJP spokie Ratna was supporting Dipke’s opposition to ID card checking saying “what was facial recognition doing?” . Because her protestors were wearing face masks and breaking CCTVs. That this lady is a “lawyer” is the real scandal
I think this is we Indians don't deserve good improvement , The government tries to make the infrastructure better and what we citizens do we always find a cheat code to bypass it 😭
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