Union Home Minister and Minister of Cooperation Shri Amit Shah congratulates young scientists and engineers at GalaxEye for building Mission Drishti
- Mission Drishti is the world's first OptoSAR satellite, combining optical cameras and all-weather Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) on a single platform, built by GalaxEye, a Bengaluru-based, IIT-Madras-incubated deep-tech startup.
- Billed as India's largest privately built satellite, it operationalises the Indian Space Policy 2023 vision of a private-led "space-power India".
- UPSC relevance: GS-III (Science & Tech / Space / Awareness in IT, Space), GS-II (Govt policies — space sector reforms), Prelims (current-affairs facts on private space economy).