GalaxEye is a Bengaluru space start-up founded by IIT Madras engineers in 2021. Its first satellite, Drishti, launched on 3 May 2026 and was the first to carry…
Suyash Singh, Denil Chawda, Kishan Thakkar, Pranit Mehta and Rakshit Bhatt, from the Avishkar Hyperloop team, set out to fuse radar and optical sensing.
A rail-mounted rig tested the Drishti sensor in January. In December came the first SAR image and a 3.5 million dollar seed round led by Speciale Invest.
The Indian Army's Northern Command ran user trials; GalaxEye flew a SAR on a high-altitude pseudo-satellite and won an iDEX defence challenge.
Mela Ventures and Speciale Invest opened the round, Infosys committed Rs 17 crore, and MountTech Growth Fund-Kavachh led the close at 10 million dollars.
The GLX-SQ payload rode ISRO's POEM-4 platform to test GalaxEye's onboard SyncFusion processing in orbit.
A 190 kg satellite with an X-band radar and a seven-band optical imager: the first to fly both on one platform.
In the final stage of early-orbit checks an anomaly hit. GalaxEye's initial analysis blamed radiation from an extreme geomagnetic solar storm. Imaging never began.
It bought Bengaluru spacecraft maker StarOps, with satellite buses from 50 to 250 kg, and targeted two new OptoSAR satellites within 24 months.
Its system for synchronising optical and radar sensors. Reuters reported about 21 million dollars raised and plans for about 30 satellites in five years.
The Technology Development Board backs a Rs 247.69 crore project for a satellite imaging finer than 0.5 metre, from TRL 6 to TRL 9.
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