Mission Drishti, world's first OptoSAR satellite from private Indian fim loses communication after solar storm

Chennai, July 8 -- Two months after the launch of its maiden Mission Drishti, the world's first OptoSAR satellite developed by it,he Bengaluru-based space spartup GalaxEye has announced that communication with the spacecraft was lost after it encountered an anomaly following a geomagnetic solar storm during the final stage of the Launch and Early Orbit Phase (LEOP).

Mission Drishti, also India's largest privately developed Earth observation satellite, was launched on May 3 aboard a Falcon 9 bySpaceX from Vandenberg, California, marking a historic milestone for Earth observation and India's private space sector.

In an update on its website, the company said in the final stage of LEOP, the maiden spacecraft encountered an anomaly following ...