The Indian National Space Promotion and Authorisation Centre (IN-SPACe) has awarded SatSure a ₹24.6 crore grant under the newly-formed Technology Adoption Fund (TAF) to develop a sovereign Earth intelligence backbone – Dhaarini – powered by Large Earth Observation Models, reusable geospatial embeddings, and India-specific AI capabilities. SatSure is one of only three projects selected from a nationwide pool for this grant. This win marks the first time India has publicly funded sovereign geospatial foundational AI.
Bengaluru, India, 11 June 2026: SatSure Analytics India Pvt. Ltd. has received a grant of ₹24.6 crores from IN-SPACe under the Technology Adoption Fund (TAF) to develop Vision Foundation Models and Large Earth Observation Models (LOMs) – collectively called Dhaarini – that is purpose-built for India’s geographies, climate systems, and development priorities.
The grant was formalised at a signing ceremony in Ahmedabad yesterday between Prateep Basu, Co-Founder and CEO of SatSure, and Dr. Pawan Goenka, Chairman of IN-SPACe.
“The selection of these projects under the Technology Adoption Fund marks a pivotal step in our mission to transform Indian private entities into global space leaders. When we launched this fund, our vision was to bridge the critical gap between early-stage development and commercial success. This announcement marks a major milestone in IN-SPACe’s ongoing efforts to enable private sector participation and build a robust, innovation-driven space ecosystem in India. By offering this financial support, we are empowering the private sector to work on cutting-edge space technologies. These selected projects are not just innovative concepts; they are practical and market-ready solutions that will increase our footprint in the global space economy.”
— Dr. Pawan Goenka, Chairman, IN-SPACe
Large language models like GPT or Gemini learn from text. Large Earth Observation Models (LOMs) do the same for the physical world, learning the patterns of India’s monsoon dynamics, fragmented smallholder farmlands, flood cycles, urban expansion, coastal change, and tier-2 city expansion.
General-purpose globally-trained AI systems struggle to internalize India’s region-specific climate signals, and routinely misread these realities because they are approximated through discrete downstream adaptations. SatSure’s Dhaarini, the sovereign Earth observation model, will address that gap directly, building a reusable intelligence layer that can be plugged into India-specific applications across energy, power infrastructure, finance, agriculture, defence, and forestry without retraining from scratch each time, or generating inaccurate “hallucinated” data.
“This is an important milestone for SatSure and for India’s AI and space ecosystem. Large Earth Observation Models represent the next frontier of AI beyond language, enabling intelligence at national scale. Grateful to IN-SPACe and the expert committee for championing sovereign Earth Observation AI that’s grounded in India’s agricultural diversity, varied topography, climate realities, and urban complexity. Dhaarini becomes a key pillar for our upcoming satellite fleet and existing downstream solutions across financial services, forestry, agriculture, defence, and critical infrastructure.”
— Prateep Basu, Co-Founder & CEO, SatSure
SatSure’s win is one of only three projects selected by IN-SPACe following a multi-stage national evaluation process, covering very different technology needs.
The winners are:
- a reusable high-thrust rocket engine,
- SatSure’s Large Earth Observation Model and Earth intelligence system – Dhaarini,
- indigenous high-accuracy star trackers.
“Earth Observation is moving from project-specific analytics to reusable intelligence infrastructure. Large Earth Observation Models are an important part of this shift, but the real transformation lies in building sovereign Earth intelligence layers that can compound across data, embeddings, models, evaluation systems, and downstream decision workflows. For India, this means encoding our geography, climate dynamics, agricultural diversity, and infrastructure realities directly into the intelligence stack, so the same foundation can support decision systems across sectors over time.”
— Rashmit Singh Sukhmani, Co-Founder & CTO, SatSure
Part of a larger sovereign push
The financial support from TAF builds directly on SatSure’s broader role in India’s sovereign space build-out. SatSure is a strategic partner in IN-SPACe’s ₹1,200 crore Earth Observation Public-Private Partnership (EO-PPP) alongside Pixxel Space, Dhruva Space, and PierSight, to build India’s first fully indigenous, 12-satellite commercial constellation. SatSure’s subsidiary KaleidEO will contribute two optical and multi-spectral wide-swath imaging satellites to that fleet.
SatSure’s Dhaarini – the Earth intelligence system funded by this grant – will form the intelligence layer that turns data from these satellites and other Earth observation sources into operational decision systems. This completes SatSure’s full-stack approach from sensor to intelligence to decision, built and owned in India. Together, the two programs position Earth observation data and AI as an emerging layer of national digital infrastructure, supporting agriculture, climate resilience, national security, infrastructure planning, and economic decision-making.
About SatSure
SatSure is a global deep-tech company that combines satellite Earth Observation, machine learning, and AI to enable decision intelligence across agriculture, climate risk, infrastructure, agri-finance, forestry, utilities, and sustainability. SatSure builds scalable systems that convert complex geospatial data into operational insights for governments and enterprises worldwide. Through its wholly-owned subsidiary KaleidEO, SatSure is also building upstream optical and multi-spectral imaging payloads for sovereign and commercial satellite missions.
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