[8] However, on 9 February 2022, Founder Rohan Ganapathy announced on Twitter that the company had stopped working on its rocket and instead focusing exclusively on propulsion systems.

[9] On October 9, 2024, Bellatrix Aerospace and NewSpace India Limited signed a contract for the integration of Pushpak Orbital Transfer Vehicle (OTV) for NSIL's launch missions.

The first launch with Pushpak OTV integrated into an ISRO rocket is expected to be in early 2026, with the company saying that it has already on-boarded two customers, with talks ongoing with others.

Comparatively greater resolution imagery is possible with ultra-LEO satellites for Earth observation uses like mapping, agriculture, and climate modeling.

Hence, the orbits are "self-cleaning," meaning space trash is less of an issue because satellites quickly fall back to Earth at the end of their lives.

In order to combat air drag, the spacecraft must carry a lot of propellant to power its engines, which might make it heavier and bulkier and significantly reduce its operating time.

By creating a unique air-intake electric propulsion system that gathers air particles from the upper atmosphere and uses them as propellant, Bellatrix overcame this difficulty.

In order to balance the combination of passive and active compression, the startup had to carefully tune the satellite's size, shape, and intake.