Mission Drishti Encounters Anomaly After Solar Storm

On 7th July 2026, Bengaluru-based space start-up GalaxEye announced that its Mission Drishti satellite encountered an anomaly following a geomagnetic solar storm during the final stage of the Launch and Early Orbit Phase (LEOP).

  • Mission Drishti was launched on 3 May 2026 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California.
  • Mission Drishti is the world's first OptoSAR (Optical + Synthetic Aperture Radar) Earth observation satellite and India's largest privately developed Earth observation ....
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