India, May 4 -- Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday congratulated young scientists and engineers at GalaxEye for building Mission Drishti, described as the world's first OptoSAR satellite combining optical cameras and all-weather radar.

Bengaluru-based space start-up GalaxEye's Mission Drishti satellite was launched on Sunday aboard Falcon 9, developed by SpaceX, from California (US). In a post on X, Shah said, "Congratulations to our young scientists and engineers at @GalaxEye for building Mission Drishti, the world's first OptoSAR satellite combining optical cameras and all-weather radar."

Mission Drishti is the world's first OptoSAR satellite, integrating electro-optical (EO) and synthetic aperture radar (SAR) sensors into a sing...