Bengaluru, Oct 13 (NationPress) The spacetech startup GalaxEye announced on Monday its ambitious plan to initiate ‘Mission Drishti’ in the first quarter of 2026, which will be the world’s first multi-sensor Earth observation satellite.

Weighing in at 160 kgs, ‘Mission Drishti’ stands as India’s largest privately-developed satellite and boasts the highest resolution ever achieved in the country.

This launch will also kick off GalaxEye’s satellite constellation project, which aims to deploy 8-12 satellites successively by 2029, with the goal of providing near real-time Earth observation for various global applications.

“With Mission Drishti, we are ushering in a new era of actionable data through space exploration. For the first time globally, we are launching a satellite that integrates multiple sensing technologies on a single platform, allowing us to observe the Earth in ways previously unattainable,” stated Suyash Singh, Co-founder and CEO of GalaxEye.

This mission positions India prominently on the global space stage and establishes a framework that transforms space technology into critical intelligence that businesses, governments, and communities can depend on, he further remarked.

Based in Bengaluru, GalaxEye has engineered the world’s first multi-sensor Earth observation platform, equipped with synthetic aperture radar (SAR) and high-resolution optical payloads on a single satellite, enabling unparalleled Earth observation data availability in any weather and at any time of day.

This satellite will empower governments, defense agencies, and industries to conduct advanced geospatial analysis across diverse applications such as border surveillance, disaster response, defense, utilities and infrastructure monitoring, agriculture, and financial and insurance assessments—delivering real-time environmental and structural insights.

The Drishti satellite has successfully completed rigorous structural testing at ISRO’s UR Rao Satellite Centre (URSC), validating its ability to withstand the extreme conditions of space, including severe temperatures, vibrations, and vacuum.

Every satellite is designed as a remote-sensing Earth observation system, optimized for spatial, spectral, and temporal resolutions, ensuring the capture of high-precision imagery.

The initial satellite will provide a spatial resolution of 1.5 metres, meaning that each pixel in its imagery will represent a 1.5 x 1.5 metre section of the Earth's surface from an altitude of 500 km.