GalaxEye loses contact with Mission Drishti satellite

what happened

GalaxEye lost contact with its Mission Drishti satellite after the spacecraft suffered an anomaly following a geomagnetic solar storm, per Business Standard. The Bengaluru-based startup says initial analysis points to radiation effects from the storm affecting a critical onboard system, after which communication became intermittent and was then lost; the satellite, launched in May, combined electro-optical and SAR sensors on one platform. GalaxEye CEO Suyash Singh said efforts to re-establish contact are underway but recovery is unlikely, though the satellite validated several spacecraft systems before the anomaly.

why it matters

Mission Drishti was billed as the world's first satellite to combine EO and SAR sensing on one platform, an early-stage Indian EO startup's flagship technology demonstrator, so its loss is a real setback even as the company frames it as a partial technical success. GalaxEye says it plans two more launches to keep momentum, making this a data point on execution risk for India's fast-growing private EO sector rather than a company-ending event.

signal-to-noise

quick facts

Companies

GalaxEye

Category

incident

Impact

notable

SNR

4 / 5

Event date

2026-07-07

Published

2026-07-08 10:03 UTC