GalaxEye to launch world’s first multi-sensor satellite next year

Chennai-based space start-up GalaxEye plans to launch the world’s first multi-sensor satellite next year. The satellite would be capable of observing Earth night and day, even peering through dense clouds. In an interaction with PTI, GalaxEye Space cofounder and chief executive officer (CEO) Suyash Singh said the satellite — Mission Drishti — synchronises two complementary sensors, thus pioneering data fusion at its core.

The new multi-sensor satellite will capture both Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data and data from optical sensors from the same satellite to improve the correlation and analytical utility of the data generated.