{"id":1006681,"date":"2026-05-04T10:10:40","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T04:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1006681"},"modified":"2026-05-04T10:27:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T04:57:09","slug":"indias-largest-private-satellite-drishti-lifts-off-marks-global-first-in-optosar-imaging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/04\/indias-largest-private-satellite-drishti-lifts-off-marks-global-first-in-optosar-imaging\/","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s largest private satellite \u2018Drishti\u2019 lifts off, marks global first in OptoSAR imaging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bengaluru-based Space-tech startup GalaxEye on Sunday successfully launched Mission Drishti, the world\u2019s first satellite to combine optical and synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging on a single platform, marking a milestone for India\u2019s private space sector and its ambitions in earth observation and geospatial intelligence. <\/p>\n<p>The 190-kg satellite, launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg, California, is the largest privately built satellite in India and enables all-weather, day-and-night imaging by fusing electro-optical and radar data streams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bengaluru-based Space-tech startup GalaxEye on Sunday successfully launched Mission Drishti, the world\u2019s first satellite to combine optical and synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging on a single platform, marking a milestone for India\u2019s private space sector and its ambitions in earth observation and geospatial intelligence. The 190-kg satellite, launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg, California, is the largest privately built satellite in India and enables all-weather, day-and-night imaging by fusing electro-optical and radar data streams.<\/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-1006681","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\/1006681","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=1006681"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1006682,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006681\/revisions\/1006682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1006681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1006681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1006681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}