Suyash Singh
CEO
IIT Madras, Avishkar Hyperloop team origin
GalaxEye Space
Earth Observation
ISFC-2026-00007Earth Observationactiveprivate
OPERATIONAL — flagship in orbit
About
Overview
OPERATIONAL — flagship in orbit
Technology
Drishti — Mass: ~190 kg — India's largest privately built satellite
Drishti — Orbit: SSO ~500 ± 10 km
Drishti — Compute: NVIDIA Jetson Orin for in-orbit AI inference
Drishti — Architecture: SyncFused OptoSAR — world's first integration of Electro-Optical and SAR sensors on a single operational platform
Drishti — Processing: SAR image formation and compression, analogue to digital, in under 10 minutes
Funding
Total raised: ~$13.5 million
Stage: Series A-II
Investors — Mela Ventures
Investors — ideaForge
Investors — Speciale Invest
Future plans
Constellation: 8–12 satellites by 2029
Markets: Defence and intelligence, agriculture, aquaculture, mining, disaster management, finance
Research notes
Correction from v3: Founded 2021, not 2017. Funding is ~$13.5M, not $3.5M. HQ is Bengaluru, not Chennai.
Import provenance
Imported from IFSC Archive dataset v5.0, research snapshot 2026-08-16.
People
Pranit Mehta
IIT Madras, Avishkar Hyperloop team origin
Denil Chawda
IIT Madras, Avishkar Hyperloop team origin
Rakshit Bhatt
IIT Madras, Avishkar Hyperloop team origin
Kishan Thakkar
IIT Madras, Avishkar Hyperloop team origin
Timeline
Mission Drishti launched 07:00 UTC on SpaceX Falcon 9 CAS500-2 from Vandenberg SLC-4E
launch
GLX-SQ payload on ISRO POEM-4 (PSLV-C60); POEM-4 re-entered 5 April 2025 after successful demonstration
launch
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