Built by engineers. Driven by independence.
We have been building, launching and operating spacecraft as a private company since 2018 — first as Exseed Space, today as Satellize. The team, the cleanroom and the mission have been steady the whole way.
The Exseed evolution.
Satellize, formerly Exseed Space, was founded over many cups of chai in Hyderabad in 2017, when Mahesh Murthy and Ashhar Farhan, lifelong friends and school buddies, noticed that barely 12 countries out of 200 on earth had launched rockets to space, and barely 80 had ever sent up any satellites. They felt they had the engineering, talent and institutional history to build a private space company that could offer sovereign space capabilities to the world's nations. Especially those who either could not afford US and Europe space program costs — or for some reason did not want US, China or Russia political alignment.
From private firsts
We founded Exseed Space with a small team of veteran spacecraft, RF and avionics engineers — many of them long-time amateur-radio operators and ISRO alumni — and a borrowed garage. Within four months we had built Exseed Sat 1, India's first private satellite. SpaceX's Falcon 9 carried it to orbit in December 2018. Four months later, AISAT — Exseed Sat 2 — became the first private satellite launched from Indian soil and the world's first commercial use of ISRO's PS4 fourth-stage platform. Both satellites worked. A team out of a garage had done, in months and on a startup budget, what state programmes schedule years and ministries for.
To sovereign futures
As the geopolitical landscape fractured — denied signals, contested orbits, foreign clouds — it became clear that the more interesting work wasn't selling commercial imagery but standing up sovereign programmes. The Tonga response in 2022 made the case in the simplest possible terms. In 2024 we rebranded to Satellize to reflect that mature mission: putting full-stack orbital control — satellites, ground stations, mission control, operators — into the hands of allied nations. The team, the cleanroom and the engineering DNA have been steady the whole way.
“We build in-house to guarantee zero supply-chain compromise. Every screw, every line of firmware, every test report — held in our own hands.”
Two engineers, one mission.
Mahesh Murthy and Ashhar Farhan founded the company together in 2018 and have led every spacecraft, every ground station and every national program since. Mahesh also founded the outcome-based marketing firm Pinstorm and writes at maheshmurthy.com.
Mahesh Murthy
Mahesh leads Satellize's national-program work, anchoring the conversations that turn a sovereign aspiration into a funded, delivered constellation. He has spent three decades at the intersection of technology, capital and Indian institutional credibility.
Ashhar Farhan
Farhan leads Satellize's engineering — bus architecture, payload integration, ground systems and mission operations. His teams have delivered every Satellize spacecraft to orbit and stood up every sovereign ground station the company has signed.
Mahesh also owns and runs Unstrat, the non-aligned prime supplier of strategic and defence capabilities: over 80 products from 10 world-class manufacturers, delivered by one accountable team.
Eight years, step by step.
Exseed Space founded in Hyderabad by Mahesh Murthy and Ashhar Farhan; veteran spacecraft, RF and avionics engineers assembled in a borrowed garage.
Exseed Sat 1 — India's first private satellite — launched on SpaceX Falcon 9 SSO-A on 03 December, joint engineering with AMSAT-India.
DefExpo 2020 partnership announced; ground-segment work for the Indian Armed Forces begins.
AISAT (Exseed Sat 2) — first private satellite launched from Indian soil — flown on PSLV-C45 PS4 platform with ISRO; first commercial use of the PS4 stage.
Hyderabad ISO Class 7 satellite integration cleanroom commissioned.
GSAT-30 ground-segment support; commercial replenishment of INSAT-4A communications coverage.
GSAT-31 ground-segment integration; Ku-band coverage for the Indian subcontinent.
EOS-04 / RISAT-1A SAR mission delivered alongside ISRO — all-weather, day-night radar imaging.
Tonga response — sovereign satellite and backbone program stood up after the Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha'apai eruption severed undersea cable.
SpaceShare workforce-development program launched — Indian engineering talent placed into global space-industry roles.
Rebrand from Exseed Space to Satellize — sovereignty as the mission, full-stack national programs as the offer.
Monsoon early-warning program — Bay of Bengal cyclone-genesis observation routine ops; minutes-latency to civil defence.
Three offices, one mission.
Satellize Exseed Space Innovations Pvt. Ltd. — registered in India, with engineering and operations across South Asia and Europe.
info@satellize.comDubai
Dubai Digital Park Dubai Silicon Oasis Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Noordwijk
Kapteynstraat 1-140 2201 BB Noordwijk The Netherlands
Mumbai
Swati Building, North Avenue Santa Cruz West Mumbai 400 054, India
Hyderabad
403, B Block, Delta Seacon Banjara Hills Hyderabad 500 034, India
Credit where it is due.
No spacecraft flies alone. Across eight years and ten missions, the institutions and teams below stood with us — on the pad, in the cleanroom, on the ground network and at the data desk. We name them because credibility is borrowed, never owned.
Eight years. Ten missions. One mission control room. The same engineers who shipped Exseed Sat 1 are the ones writing tasking files tonight.
Space is the ultimate frontier of national sovereignty. If you do not control your data from orbit, you do not control your future on Earth.