GalaxEye
Kishan Thakkar is currently the Vice President of Engineering at GalaxEye since May 2021. Previously, Kishan was the Team Head and Power Systems Head at Team Avishkar Hyperloop from April 2018 to July 2021. Kishan also worked as a Power System Engineer at Tata Steel Global Wires in India from December 2019 to January 2020 and as a Project Engineer at Dynamove from April 2018 to September 2018. Kishan holds a Bachelor of Technology degree in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, graduating in 2021. Throughout Kishan's career, responsibilities included designing and assembling high voltage and power battery packs using li-ion or li-polymer cells, as well as developing a battery management system for the battery packs.
GalaxEye
GalaxEye is Indian headquartered space tech startup and first Indian HQ startup to send the Satellite in the orbit soon. GalaxEye is building the world's first multi-sensor imaging satellite, The Drishti Mission. These indigenously built satellites will enable governments, defense, and industries to perform advanced state-of-the-art geospatial analyses. GalaxEye's Drishti mission has a unique multi-sensor capability that brings intuitive all-time, all-weather imagery from space, even during night time and cloud cover. The Drishti Mission is currently in progress and is scheduled to launch into space. Access to our image dataset will prove to be user-friendly for analysts and consumers, unlocking a plethora of opportunities and benefits, both known and unknown in the current scenario. GalaxEye is an IIT Madras-incubated space tech startup. It was founded by a team of 5 students/alumni from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, who have previously worked together as part of Team Avishkar Hyperloop, a student competition team. They were selected as the only Asian finalist at the SpaceX Hyperloop Competition 2019, hosted by Elon Musk.