India, May 8 -- Bengaluru (Karnataka)/New Delhi [India], May 8 (ANI) Bengaluru-based startup GalaxEye, which launched Mission Drishti into orbit earlier this week, has said that the world's first OptoSAR satellite is "alive and kicking."

Weighing 190 kg, the first privately built synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging satellite in India is helping redefine the country's space capabilities with technology that has major global, commercial, and defence significance. Unlike conventional optical Earth observation satellites, SAR satellites can image the Earth day and night and through cloud cover by using radar signals. The unique "OptoSAR" architecture allows Drishti to give an image of any place on earth anytime in any weather, effectively...