Sovereign laser-based relay network aims to deliver near-real-time satellite intelligence without dependence on foreign infrastructure.

Today, an Indian Earth observation satellite can capture high-value data, such as a flood, a crop-stress signal, or a border movement, and then sit on it for several minutes to several hours, waiting to pass over a ground station before the information reaches anyone who can act on it. TakeMe2Space, India’s space infrastructure company building orbital data center capabilities, today announced a partnership with QOSMIC to close that gap by building India’s first indigenous Optical Inter-Satellite Link (OISL) network to move and process satellite data directly in orbit and deliver near-real-time intelligence to the ground.

By routing data between satellites over high-speed laser links rather than waiting for ground-station visibility, the partnership lays the foundation for a sovereign, space-based data relay network: an independent, uninterrupted, on-demand data pipeline for Indian governments, enterprises, and commercial operators that does not rely on foreign relay systems for its most time-sensitive information.

“Optical inter-satellite communications are a critical building block for the future of orbital infrastructure,” said Ronak Kumar Samantray, Founder and CEO, TakeMe2Space. “As we scale toward our vision of creating large-scale orbital computing and data center capacity, intelligent networking between satellites becomes just as important as the compute itself. This partnership with QOSMIC lets us build a sovereign communications backbone for the next generation of space-based applications.”

How it works

Integrated into TakeMe2Space’s MOI constellation, OISL technology turns a set of individuals satellites into an interconnected orbital network. Data generated anywhere in the constellation can be dynamically routed across it and transmitted down through the nearest available RF gateway or QOSMIC’s optical ground infrastructure, then, critically, processed on orbit into actionable insight before it ever reaches Earth.

That near-real-time delivery matters most where minutes count: precision agriculture, disaster response, environmental monitoring, and national security. The collaboration QOSMIC will lead development of the core optical communication terminal. TakeMe2Space will design and develop the high-precision OISL gimbal system, satellite bus interconnects, and the bus-level Attitude Determination and Control System (ADCS) hardware and firmware required for precision pointing and link stability. The joint program runs from system design and development through space qualification and on-orbit validation, with the first optical communications terminal scheduled for launch in Q2 2027.

Together, laser-based inter-satellite communications and optical ground infrastructure advance TakeMe2Space’s long-term vision of establishing gigawatt-scale Orbital Data Centre capacity and a new generation of intelligent, interconnected space infrastructure.

Variant Description

Variant A- Compact, high-efficiency optical communications system optimised for nominal operational ranges of up to 2,500 km.

Variant B- High-performance, extended-range platform engineered for deep-meshed orbital networks with nominal communication ranges of up to 8,000 km.