Bengaluru Startup Digantara Unveils MOSAIC Optical Sensor Network

Bengaluru-based space domain awareness and defence intelligence company Digantara on Tuesday unveiled MOSAIC, an AI-powered, distributed optical sensor network designed to provide continuous, real-time custody of objects in Low Earth Orbit (LEO).

Where space surveillance has traditionally depended on a small number of foreign-owned, fixed sensors, MOSAIC introduces a sovereign capability developed entirely in India. The startup stated that the domestically built, continuously operating system will reduce the country's reliance on foreign commercial providers for time-critical orbital tracking.

Anirudh Sharma, founder and chief executive officer of Digantara, highlighted the shift toward resilient and proliferated networks. "Every big infrastructure problem eventually stops being about having one perfect system and starts being about having many resilient ones. That’s true of the power grid, it’s true of the internet, and it’s now true of space," Sharma said. "In our early days, we started by asking a simple question of what’s actually up there. Now, we are answering what you should know about it, and how fast can you know? Every capability we build, MOSAIC included, is really one more piece of that same answer. We aim to proliferate these sensors across the world to maintain custody and have independent catalogue maintenance."

MOSAIC is designed to integrate into Digantara’s broader Space Domain Awareness infrastructure, which encompasses space-based tracking and data fusion handled by an in-house processing engine. Serving as a wide-area detection and custody layer feeding both, the network expands the company's ability to detect, characterise, and track objects across various orbital regimes, ranging from Low Earth Orbit to Geostationary Orbit (GEO).

The product unveiling comes as the Bengaluru startup raised $50 million and prepares to launch 15 space-based surveillance satellites.