Actor Ram Charan recalled his conversation with PM Modi about his upcoming film 𝐏𝐞𝐝𝐝𝐢. 🇮🇳🎬
“The last time I met our Honourable Prime Minister Modi Ji in Delhi, he asked me what Peddi was about. I told him it’s about an evolved India and empowering our villages.”
𝐋𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐏𝐌 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐢’𝐬 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐖𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐁𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐚𝐥, 𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐓𝐞𝐥𝐮𝐠𝐮 𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫 𝐡𝐢𝐦𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟! 🔽
Let me explain what just happened today because it deserves so much recognition.
GalaxEye is a Bengaluru startup founded in 2021 by IIT Madras engineers. Today they launched Mission Drishti on a SpaceX Falcon 9. It is India's largest privately built satellite at 190 kg. And it carries a technology that no commercial satellite has ever carried before.
Normal satellites take photos of the Earth using optical cameras. Like your phone camera, but from 500 km up. The problem is obvious. Clouds. Night. Fog. Smoke. If any of these are in the way, the photo is useless. India has monsoon cover for 4 months a year. That is 4 months where optical satellites are partially or fully blind over large parts of the country.
The alternative is SAR. Synthetic Aperture Radar. Instead of taking photos with light, it sends radar waves down and reads what bounces back. Radar goes through clouds, through darkness, through smoke. A SAR satellite can image a flooded village at 2 AM during a cyclone when no optical satellite can see anything.
The problem with SAR is that the images look nothing like photos. They look like grainy black-and-white radar maps. A military analyst or a trained geospatial engineer can read them. A farmer, a disaster response team, or a city planner cannot.
Until today, if you wanted both optical and SAR data for the same location, you needed two different satellites, passing over at different times, at different angles. Then someone had to manually align and fuse the two datasets. Expensive, slow, and the data never perfectly matched because the satellites saw the same spot minutes or hours apart.
GalaxEye put both sensors on one satellite. Optical and SAR, fused into what they call OptoSAR. Three times more information than a single sensor. Processed onboard by an NVIDIA AI chip at 1.8 metre resolution.
Now in practice, during the next cyclone hitting Odisha, one satellite pass gives you a clear image of which villages are flooded, which roads are cut, and which buildings are standing. Day or night. Cloud or clear. In near real-time.
For defence, it means you can monitor a border area 24/7 regardless of weather. For agriculture, it means tracking crop health across an entire monsoon season without a single cloud gap. For infrastructure, it means monitoring construction progress on highways and bridges without waiting for a clear day.
GalaxEye tested their SAR tech on ISRO's POEM orbital platform. The satellite was tested at ISRO facilities. IN-SPACe provided regulatory clearance. NSIL, ISRO's commercial arm, will distribute the imagery globally. And it launched on SpaceX because ISRO's PSLV doesn't have the right orbit slot for this mission.
Yes, four IIT Madras graduates built a world-first satellite in 4 years in Bengaluru.
Take a bow!
Glad to have met you, Upasana and Anil Kamineni Garu. Your collective efforts to popularise archery are commendable and will benefit countless youngsters.
@AlwaysRamCharan@upasanakonidela
Best wishes to Shri Pawan Kalyan Ji on his birthday. He’s made a mark in hearts and minds of countless people. He is strengthening the NDA in Andhra Pradesh by focusing on good governance. Praying for his long and healthy life.
@PawanKalyan
During Operation Sindoor, Sharmistha, a law student, spoke out, her words regrettable and hurtful to some. She owned her mistake, deleted the video and apologized. The WB Police swiftly acted, taking action against Sharmistha.
But what about the deep, searing pain inflicted upon millions when elected leaders, MPs of TMC, mock Sanatana Dharma? Where is the outrage when our faith is called 'Gandha Dharm'? Where is their apology? Where is their swift arrest?
Blasphemy must be condemned, always! Secularism isn't a shield for some and a sword for others. It must be a two-way street. West Bengal Police, the nation is watching. Act justly for all. #IstandwithSharmistha. #EqualJustice
Chatgpt’s Gaslighting skills - 10/10 🥰🥰
I asked for suggestions on some sushi places around me in an anticipation that it would ask me where am I rn
Instead it gave me recommendations. Then I went on to ask how does it know I’m in Delhi —-🧵1/2
Announcing my new startup, ANTI-SLAUGHTER🚫.
Business plan: Buy goats, chickens and pigs. Put them into a truck every week and cross paths with the Ambani family. Sell these animals to them for 10x price. They will live best life at Vantara, our company makes money. Animals happy, we happy.
Raising pre-seed at $1 billion valuation. Investors can reach out to me in the next 24 hrs before valuation jumps up to $10 billion. Thanks
Delighted to see lots of appreciation for
@AlwaysRamCharan who excels as Appanna ,the righteous ideologue &
Ram Nandan, the determined IAS officer out to cleanse the system.
Hearty Congrats to @iam_SJSuryah@advani_kiara@yoursanjali ,
Producer #DilRaju @SV@SVC_Official ,
above all Director @shankarshanmugh and the entire cast & crew for a topical and purposeful political drama. #GameChanger !
Google Willow Quantum vs Bitcoin Encryption
Today, Google announced that Willow has reached 105 qubits with improved error rates. Should Bitcoiners worry?
🚫 Short Answer: No.
🔒 Bitcoin relies on two types of encryption:
1️⃣ ECDSA 256: Vulnerable to "Shor’s algorithm," but cracking it would require over 1,000,000 qubits. Willow’s 105 isn’t even close.
2️⃣ SHA-256: Even tougher—requires a different approach (Grover’s algorithm) and millions of physical qubits to pose a real threat.
Bitcoin’s cryptography remains SAFU... for now.