GalaxEye Space

GalaxEye Space was founded in 2020 as a spin-out from IIT Madras, and is headquartered in Bengaluru, India. The company set out to solve a fundamental problem in Earth observation: traditional multi-layered analysis requires combining imagery from two separate satellites — one carrying a SAR sensor, one carrying an optical sensor — introducing unavoidable errors from parallax (differing viewing angles) and time-gaps (differing capture times).

GalaxEye's answer is its proprietary SyncFusion™ technology stack, centered on the OptoSAR payload: a compact, co-located instrument housing both an X-band SAR sensor and a 7-band multispectral imager on a single, thermally-stable optical bench. This physical co-location eliminates parallax error at the source. AI-powered fusion algorithms then perform sub-pixel co-registration and jitter correction, both onboard and on the ground, ensuring every data point from both sensors is captured and processed as part of a single, unified dataset.

The fused OptoSAR imagery combines the optical layer's intuitive visual context, color, and texture with the SAR layer's ability to penetrate clouds, darkness, and smoke to reveal structural information and surface texture — delivering a single, mission-critical data product where competing approaches deliver two separate, harder-to-reconcile images. GalaxEye's Mission Drishti is the company's flagship satellite mission carrying the OptoSAR payload to orbit.