{"id":1006619,"date":"2026-05-04T09:54:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T04:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1006619"},"modified":"2026-05-04T10:05:55","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T04:35:55","slug":"internet-celebrates-galaxeyes-launch-of-worlds-first-optosar-satellite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/04\/internet-celebrates-galaxeyes-launch-of-worlds-first-optosar-satellite\/","title":{"rendered":"Internet celebrates Galaxeye&#8217;s launch of world&#8217;s first OptoSAR satellite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s private space industry crossed a significant threshold on Sunday as GalaxEye successfully placed its Mission Drishti satellite into orbit, riding aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. <\/p>\n<p>The 190-kilogram satellite is the largest ever built by an Indian private company. Mission Drishti is described as the world&#8217;s first OptoSAR satellite, integrating electro-optical and synthetic aperture radar sensors into a single operational platform. The combination means the satellite can deliver sharp optical imagery in clear conditions while simultaneously offering all-weather, day-and-night radar imaging.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s private space industry crossed a significant threshold on Sunday as GalaxEye successfully placed its Mission Drishti satellite into orbit, riding aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. The 190-kilogram satellite is the largest ever built by an Indian private company. Mission Drishti is described as the world&#8217;s first OptoSAR satellite, integrating electro-optical and synthetic aperture radar sensors into a single operational platform. The combination means the satellite can deliver sharp optical imagery in clear conditions while simultaneously offering all-weather, day-and-night radar imaging.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1006619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1006619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1006619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1006619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1006619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}