LEAP-1 Mission

Launching Expeditions for Aspiring Payloads

LEAP-1 marks Dhruva Space’s first commercial endeavour on the P-30 satellite platform, hosting two In-Orbit Demonstration (IOD) missions: Akula Tech’s Nexus-01 mission comprising an advanced Artificial Intelligence (AI) module, and Akula Tech's Esperesso hyperspectral imager developed by Esper Satellites for OTR-2.

Scheduled to launch aboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9 in Q3 2025, the mission represents a landmark Indo-Australian collaboration to be launched from the United States of America. 

Following the successful Space-qualification of the P-30 satellite bus on ISRO’s PSLV-C58 in January 2024, LEAP-1 demonstrates Dhruva Space’s transition to scalable hosted payload services for the global market.

Mission Details

Mission Name:

LEAP-1

Mission Type:

Hosted Payload

Hosted Payload Customers:

Akula Tech (developed by Esper Satellites)

Spacecraft:

Dhruva Space’s P-30 Satellite Bus

Launch site:

Vandenberg Space Force Base, CA, USA

Mission Specifications

Satellite Bus

P-30

Payload Mass

Up to 15 kg

Payload Volume

Up to 12U

Payload Power

Up to 50 W

LEAP-1

P-30 Satellite Bus

Compact & Modular

Hosted Payload Missions
Payload In-Orbit Validation (IOV) / In-Orbit Demonstration (IOD)
Multi-Payload Configurations
Body-mounted and Deployable Solar Arrays
3-axis stabilised for advanced missions
Optimised for Low Earth Orbit (LEO)

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Hosted Payloads

Payload:

Esperesso

Mission Specifications:

• 100 bands
• 40 - 1000 nm
• 30 m Spatial Resolution
• 100,000 km² tasking capacity available

Payload:

Nexus-01

Mission Specifications:

• Onboard Edge AI Inference
• Real-time Hyperspectral Processing (L0–L3)
• Parallel AI Model Execution on NVIDIA Jetson
• Actionable Intelligence Delivery in Minutes