The announcement was made at the IndiaAI Impact Summit 2026 in New Delhi | Photo Credit: aapsky

Space tech start-up GalaxEye on Wednesday announced its upcoming satellite mission, ‘Mission Drishti’, scheduled to launch in 2026.

The Mission Drishti satellite will feature NVIDIA’s Jetson Orin GPU architecture and will run advanced AI workloads directly in orbit, helping in better processing, interpretation and customer delivery of Earth observation data.

The satellite will also feature GalaxEye’s world-first SyncFused OptoSAR architecture. The architecture uniquely integrates Electro-Optical (EO) and Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) sensors on a single satellite platform- a combination that is designed to reduce the trade-off between high-resolution visual imagery and all-weather, day-night imaging leading to more consistent intelligence generation across operating conditions.

The company also plans to use the mission to explore the feasibility of Orbital Data Centres (ODC) where multiple satellites operate as interconnected compute nodes to operate as data centres.

“Taking NVIDIA Jetson Orin to space aboard Mission Drishti is a defining milestone for GalaxEye. We are  advancing to a next-generation of Earth Observation satellites — using OptoSAR technology for advanced high resolution imaging and building Orbital Data Centers to generate and deliver intelligence from Orbit,” said Suyash Singh, CEO of GalaxEye.

Tobias Halloran, director of EMEAI start-ups and venture capital at NVIDIA said that the company is accelerating India’s start-up momentum by giving founders direct access to accelerated computing and scalable AI infrastructure, helping them scale faster and build for global markets.”

The announcement was made at the IndiaAI Impact Summit 2026 in New Delhi. 

Published on February 18, 2026