Nitesh

maker | aeromodeller | geek
ex-Systems Engineer @galaxeye

[Nitesh @asper_io]

@Siddhant__rao add a little bit of ching's schezwan chutney and some onions and tomatoes and you have a pretty healthy and filling salad. You can also use it as stuffing for a roll or a sandwich.

[Nitesh @asper_io]

@cvkrishnan I used to stay in Nikoo Homes and Bhartiya City is a brilliant area to live in. Just wouldn't recommend someone trying to go to Hennur road from there :p

[Nitesh @asper_io]

@Siddhant__rao @ivishaltejwani Level Up one step at a time

[Nitesh @asper_io]

@saxenasaheb @jiteshluthra @isawsukul how do you get in?

[Nitesh @asper_io]

@caleb_friesen Still get goosebumps about the time we got these images, this was after continuous effort of years and so many failed experiments!

[GalaxEye @GalaxEye]

Separation Confirmed!
The world's first OptoSAR Satellite is now in space.
Made in India for the world.

Go Drishti! Go @GalaxEye! Go India!

[Nitesh @asper_io]

@thesuyashsingh where should I get them 😅😅

[Nitesh @asper_io]

@royan_sanju went to Ambattur yesterday for something and literally saw so many metal working shops and every single one of them was open and busy.

There was a shop right next to where I went and they were making molds for massive truck tires.

Very cool to see.

[Nitesh @asper_io]

Who here is building in the hardware space in Chennai @IITMIC @iitmrp @itntHub

Would love to interact

[Nitesh @asper_io]

@karthikRanga92 Either the communication module or a camera

[Nitesh @asper_io]

@karthikRanga92 Wow! You have come a long way Karthik!

[Nitesh @asper_io]

@thesuyashsingh It's happening!!!!!

[Andrew McCalip @andrewmccalip]

Data centers in orbit? Of course that’s your contention. Of course it is.

You just finished watching a Scott Manley video on radiative heat transfer and now you think you’re gonna disrupt AWS with a few solar panels and a rideshare slot.

You’re gonna believe that right up until next month when you crack open DeWitt and Incropera and start throwing around σT⁴ like you just invented radiation physics, quoting emissivity tables for polished aluminum like they’re forbidden knowledge.

Then you’ll finally open SMAD and realize your radiator isn’t some static plate glowing into the void. It’s a dynamic structure with a wicked case of thermal flutter reminiscent of Hubble’s arrays. You’ll be quoting beta angles and Earth albedo coefficients and wondering why your deployable array grenaded in vibe when the first bending mode clocked in at 38 Hz instead of the 50 Hz you promised in CDR.

After that you’ll get real ambitious, quoting Johnson and Fabisinski on inflatable polyimide PV structures, pretending you actually understand what happens when your 25-micron Kapton sail is tensioned off a Toray T1100G Cycom 5250-4 boom that has been sun-baked at 120 °C for six months in LEO. You’ll cite “areal density optimization” like gospel while your resin creeps, your modulus drops, and your perfectly flat film turns into a potato chip.

"Well, as a matter of fact, I won’t, because launch costs are about to fall another order of magnitude once Starship hits cadence. The cost per kilo will—"

Drop by tenfold and the economics flip.
Yeah, I’ve heard that one. The Wired 2012 quote, “You wouldn’t build a Boeing 747 and throw it away after one flight.” I remember. I even asked him about that over lunch once, whether the market was actually elastic enough to handle the supply increase from reusability.

Turns out it wasn’t. Non-Starlink launch mass in the United States grew at 13.7 percent CAGR from 2015 to 2023. Payload demand didn’t scale with flight cadence, so prices didn’t collapse, margins just swelled. That’s why they had to invent Starlink. When the market can’t absorb your rockets, you start building your own payloads.

Is that your thing? You read some Marc Andreessen “American Dynamism” manifesto and suddenly start ignoring the engineering realities?

You start throwing around a few buzzwords to impress the Twitter anons and earn some street cred for having a contrarian opinion?

One, don’t do that.
Two, you dropped a 500-thousand-dollar seed check on a concept that could have been debunked by a dollar-fifty worth of tokens from Grok.

"Well, at least I’m a capital allocator. We’ll be skiing in Hokkaido while you’re doing bolt preload calculations for some bridge somewhere."

Yeah, maybe. But at least I won’t be unoriginal or anonymous. I’m out here asking why the hell we’d melt the brains of a thousand aerospace engineers just to save four cents per kilowatt-hour on solar electricity.

First principles isn’t about getting nerd-sniped by a shiny-object problem. It’s about asking whether we should be solving that problem at all.

But hey, if you’ve got an issue with that, we can always take it up with E.

[Tarun Gautam @TARUNspeakss]

In a country where 90% people are earning less than 25K rs per month, forcing them to sell their cars every 10-15 years is nothing but cr!minal.

[Nitesh @asper_io]

@keylimepie2000 I really hope that he comes with some product philosophy and reverts back some of the stupid decisions that have been made for the last few years.

[Nitesh @asper_io]

furthermore, how good are these tools for code reviews?

[Nitesh @asper_io]

has anyone used cursor or other llm tools to write safety critical/mission critical code?

code that follows the MISRA or DO178B?

[Nitesh @asper_io]

@akhileshutup they're still building some quality stuff despite this so idk man

[Nitesh @asper_io]

I think one of my best qualities as a system engineer is that I'm always paranoid about everything but at the same time the paranoia consumes me and I can't stop thinking of everything that can go wrong.

why am I on a Sunday thinking about all the different ways things will fail

[Piyush Bodaa @piyushbodaa]

Urban voters in India are being taken for granted because politicians have decided that Urban Civic Infrastructure is not their political priority and they pay no price for it

This is why we need Mayors so that we can hold them accountable. Decentralize !