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Telangana CM KCR hails startups for making history in space sector

<span style="color: #222222;">Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao has termed the successful launch of two nano satellites – 'Thybolt 1 and Thybolt 2', as a milestone in the history of the country's enterprising start-ups.<br />''<br />''These nano satellites have been sent by the Hyderabad start-up company, Dhruva Space Tech, along with ISRO's PSLV-C54 rocket. The Chief Minister described that the launch of the satellites by the private sector as a great success.<br />''<br />''The Chief Minister noted that with the success of the recently launched 'Vikram-S' satellite, Telangana start-up company and T-Hub member 'Sky root' created history by becoming the first private company in the country to launch a satellite. He said with these experiments, Hyderabad start-up companies opened doors of new opportunities in the Indian space sector.<br />''<br />''He added that these successful satellite experiments brought laurels to Telangana worldwide and claimed that Hyderabad's prominence as a start-up city has doubled through these satellite launches.  <br />''<br />''Meanwhile, The First signals from the private nanosatellites Thybolt -1 and Thybolt-2 have been recorded over Hyderabad late in last night. These satellites have been successfully put into orbit onboard PSLV-C54 rocket yesterday.<br />''<br />''Dhruv Space, private Indian spaceflight company, CEO Sanjay Nekkanti shared the telemetry packets from these nanosatellites with to All India Radio News. These nanosatellites were put in a circular, polar Sun-synchronous orbit at an altitude of 511 kilometres yesterday.<br />''<br />''Amateur radio operators or ham enthusiasts can interact with the satellites through two transmitters and one receiver. A number of ham radio clubs across India are supporting the Thybolt mission. He informed that they wish to extend the ability of conducting amateur satellite communication activities to amateur operators.</span><br />

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