Mission Drishti: India’s largest privately built Earth observation satellite

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Mission Drishti: India’s largest privately built Earth observation satellite

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Mission Drishti: India’s largest privately built Earth observation satellite

Mission Drishti, described as the world’s first OptoSAR satellite from Indian space start-up GalaxEye, loses communication after a geomagnetic solar storm. The satellite is in the news for being India’s largest privately built satellite and for carrying SAR and MSI sensors on a single platform.

Mission Drishti (OptoSAR Earth Observation Satellite):

Dimension Key Details
Developer Mission Drishti is developed by an Indian space start-up, GalaxEye.
Type Mission Drishti is the first commercial Earth Observation satellite to carry both Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) and Multi-Spectral Imaging (MSI) sensors on a single platform.
Private-sector scale claim Mission Drishti is India’s largest privately built satellite.
Technology label Mission Drishti is described as the world’s first OptoSAR satellite.
OptoSAR benefit: Single-pass capture The OptoSAR approach provides for simultaneous capture of SAR and MSI data streams, removing the need to fuse data from separate sources.
OptoSAR benefit: Analysis-ready data The single-pass method provides an inherently aligned product and provides 3 times more information than standalone sensors.
OptoSAR benefit: All-weather reliability The combination of optical clarity and SAR provides for all-weather, day-and-night imaging capability, ensuring cloud cover or darkness do not disrupt operations.
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Q 1 / 3
With reference to Mission Drishti, consider the following statements:
1. It is described as an OptoSAR satellite.
2. It is stated to carry SAR and MSI sensors on separate satellites, whose data must be fused later.
Which of the statements given above are correct?