GalaxEye

GalaxEye builds Earth observation satellites that carry two different sensors. A synthetic aperture radar images through cloud and at night, and a multispectral camera records seven bands of light. With both on one satellite, the two images of a place are taken in the same pass and line up without extra processing. The company calls the combination OptoSAR.

Five IIT Madras graduates founded it and incorporated it in May 2021, after a year in stealth. They had met on the university's Hyperloop team, which reached the finals of SpaceX's competition in 2019. GalaxEye tested its combined imaging system in orbit on ISRO's POEM-4 platform at the end of 2024. NSIL, ISRO's commercial arm, agreed in February 2026 to resell its imagery. On 3 May 2026 Drishti, its first satellite, launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 from California. At 190 kg it is India's largest privately built Earth observation satellite.

A few days after the launch, independent trackers suggested Drishti might be tumbling. Suyash Singh, the CEO, said the satellite was "alive and kicking" and still being commissioned. In August 2026 GalaxEye bought StarOps, a Bengaluru company with satellite buses of 50, 150 and 250 kg, to make more of its spacecraft in-house. It is designing a second satellite of about 300 kg with 0.5 m resolution.