{"id":69069,"date":"2026-05-04T16:10:40","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T10:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=69069"},"modified":"2026-05-04T16:27:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T10:57:07","slug":"mission-drishti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/mission-drishti\/","title":{"rendered":"Mission Drishti"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Mission Drishti Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently, Bengaluru-based space start-up GalaxEye successfully launched its Mission Drishti satellite aboard Falcon 9 from California.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Mission Drishti<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is the world\u2019s first multi-sensor <\/span><b>Earth observation (EO) satellite.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is India\u2019s <\/span><b>largest privately built satellite<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and also the highest-resolution satellite developed in the country.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is planned by Bengaluru <\/span><b>based space startup \u2013 GalaxEye.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><b>Key Features Mission Drishti<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is the <\/span><b>world\u2019s first OptoSAR satellite,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> combining <\/span><b>electro-optical (EO<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) and <\/span><b>synthetic aperture radar<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (SAR) sensors into a single platform.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While <\/span><b>EO sensors capture <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">high-resolution images <\/span><b>in daylight<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and clear skies, <\/span><b>SAR enables<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> imaging in all <\/span><b>weather conditions and at any time using radar pulses.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is engineered as a <\/span><b>remote-sensing Earth observation system<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, optimised for spatial, spectral and temporal resolutions to capture high-precision imagery.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The satellite weighs <\/span><b>190 kg and offers 1.5 metre resolution.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Range of applications:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It will enable <\/span><b>governments, defence agencies<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and industries to perform advanced geospatial analysis across a wide range of applications, including;<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Border surveillance, disaster management, defence, infrastructure monitoring, agriculture financial and insurance assessment etc.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/science\/galaxeye-launches-mission-drishti-indias-largest-privately-developed-earth-observation-satellite\/article70934749.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TH<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mission Drishti is a multi-sensor Earth observation satellite by GalaxEye, combining EO and SAR for all-weather imaging. 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