LEAP-1 is Dhruva Space's first commercial satellite on its P-30 platform, carrying payloads for the Australian company Akula Tech. A SpaceX Falcon 9 launched it from Vandenberg, California, on 27 August 2025 (IST).
LEAP-1 is a hosted-payload mission: Dhruva Space provides the satellite, power, communications and operations, and customers fly their own instruments on it. It carries two in-orbit demonstrations for Akula Tech: Nexus-01, an artificial-intelligence computing module, and Esperesso, a hyperspectral imager developed by Esper Satellites for the OTR-2 mission. Dhruva Space describes it as an Indo-Australian collaboration.
The satellite uses Dhruva Space's P-30 bus, which can host up to 15 kg and 12U of payloads with up to 50 W of power. The whole satellite has a mass of about 60 kg.
LEAP-1 rode SpaceX's NAOS Falcon 9 mission, which lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base at 00:23 IST on 27 August 2025. The satellite separated at 01:32 IST. The same rocket carried three of Pixxel's Firefly satellites.