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[Tehxi @yajnshri]

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[Malay Krishna @Malay4Product]

The tweet compresses a long meeting into one funny line.

Here is what actually happened.

See, a satellite is basically a car with the fuel tank welded shut. It launches with every drop it will ever have, and when that runs out the satellite is dead even if the camera, the radio and the solar panels all still work perfectly.

That is the problem the petrol pump line is talking about, and it is one of the biggest unsolved problems in the industry.

On Friday, Modi Ji met the founders and CEOs of 20 Indian space startups in Delhi. Twenty companies, one room. What got quoted was the two most cinematic sentences from a session that covered launch vehicles, satellite propulsion, orbital servicing, debris removal, ground stations and agriculture.

Take the fuel thing first.

Satellites burn fuel constantly. Not to fly forward, but to hold their exact slot in orbit, to correct drift, to dodge debris, and finally to push themselves down to burn up when the mission ends.

A communications satellite can have fifteen good years of hardware and only ten years of fuel. Those five wasted years are a multi hundred crore asset floating uselessly.

If you can refuel in orbit, two things change.

Old satellites get extra life.

And new satellites can launch carrying less fuel and more actual equipment, because rocket capacity is measured in kilos and every kilo of propellant you do not have to carry is a kilo of camera or transponder you can carry instead.

That is why it is described as a petrol pump. You need a standard docking port, a robotic arm that can find and grab a satellite that was never designed to be grabbed, and a way to transfer propellant in zero gravity where liquid does not sit at the bottom of a tank.

Bengaluru based OrbitAID is one of the Indian companies working on exactly this. ISRO's chairman V Narayanan inaugurated their R&D facility in September last year and said ISRO would invite private companies into on-orbit servicing and refuelling.

Now the medicines part, which sounds even stranger and is actually the older idea of the two.

On Earth, when you try to grow a crystal of a protein, gravity ruins it. Heavier bits sink, convection currents stir the liquid, and you end up with small, messy crystals. In orbit none of that happens.

Crystals grow bigger, cleaner and more uniform.

Now, to design a drug you need to know the exact three dimensional shape of the protein you are targeting, and you get that shape by firing X rays through a crystal. Better crystal, sharper picture.

One large pharma company spent years running crystallisation experiments on the International Space Station for a cancer antibody, because the orbital version behaved differently from anything they could grow in a lab.

The Indian startup in that room wants to build small satellites that manufacture pharmaceutical material in orbit and then return it to Earth.

That is a hard problem, mostly because coming back down is harder than going up.

The rest of the meeting was less quotable but more concrete.

Skyroot spoke about its 18 July launch, India's first private orbital rocket putting satellites into orbit, and called it a warm up.

The company now runs three factories with the capacity to build one rocket a month, wants to launch monthly by the middle of next year, and eventually weekly. Its Infinity Campus in Hyderabad is 200,000 square feet built for exactly that rate.

One company said it had signed eight launch contracts in the month after its launch, most of them from foreign customers.

Another is building a global ground station network inside 18 months. Another is putting its technology in front of a million farmers. Another is building a robotic spacecraft to catch dead satellites and pull them out of orbit.

For context, India had fewer than 50 space startups five years ago. It has crossed 300 now.

Modi Ji also talked about policy consistency. That entrepreneurs will take real risk only if they are confident the rules will not change under them halfway through a seven year build.

Anyone who has raised money for hardware in India will tell you that is the entire game. Nobody funds a ten year capital intensive bet in a sector where the licensing regime might flip after the next budget.

Now, of course, in-orbit refuelling has been demonstrated a handful of times worldwide and nobody anywhere runs a commercial fuel depot yet. Space pharma is at the stage of returning grams of material, not filling prescriptions. And Skyroot has flown one orbital rocket, not fifty.

But every hard technology starts as a sentence that sounds silly in a press release.

What is genuinely different is that five years ago an Indian founder saying this in that room would have been describing a fantasy.

Now there is a rocket that flew in July, a factory that can build twelve a year, and a regulator saying come in. :)

[Havyak_Maani @Gajanan__Bhat]

@Vivek_707 Why bro why are saying like that

[Havyak_Maani @Gajanan__Bhat]

😍😍

[Astrobase Space @astrobase_space]

EVEREST — India’s first full-flow staged combustion (FFSC) rocket engine.

80-tonne class. Fully integrated. Designed and manufactured in Bengaluru, India.

[Trains of India 🇮🇳 @trainwalebhaiya]

Sign petition to save VIJAY here: https://t.co/YAoG2SAEbG

[Gareeb Scientist @gareebscientist]

headline -> misleading af

the guy who said it -> not from ISRO but @INSPACeIND , the regulator arm of Dept. of Space

Also anyways most of ISRO Launch vehicle manufacturing is done by private sector only like L&T, Godrej etc, since decades

routine stuff, move on

[Gurumoorti hegde @guru3ti]

Sirsi ❤️

[Srihari Karanth @sriharikaranth]

Unchalli Falls - plunges from 116 meters (381 feet). The sound here is so loud that locals call it "Keppa Joga," which literally means "Deafening Falls"!

Formed by the mighty Aghanashini River, which is known as one of the very few completely dam-free and industrially untouched rivers left in India.

The Aghanashini River originates in Western Ghats near Sirsi, plunges down at Unchalli, flows through dense wildlife sanctuaries, and eventually empties into the Arabian Sea near Tadri in Kumta.

[Naveen Reddy @navin_ankampali]

Magod Falls on the River Bedti, Yellapura, Uttarakannada District.

Captured last week when I was there 🤩

[bhatnaturally  🇮🇳 @bhatnaturally]

Whenever I see harivana seve videos of Udupi mathadipatis I am reminded of this old video. A tearful watch for me and am sure many.

[Trains of India 🇮🇳 @trainwalebhaiya]

Photos I took of Indian Railways in Braganza Ghats ✨

[DRDO @DRDO_India]

Maiden flight-test of ‘Kusha’ Long-Range Surface-to-Air Missile was successfully conducted from the APJ Abdul Kalam Island off the coast of Odisha today. This test was conducted against an electronic target simulating high-speed and high-altitude aerial threat which was successfully intercepted by the missile system.

[Cosmicport @CosmicportSpace]

99.97% pure methane + LOX — true #methalox, not LNG in disguise.

Our first cryogenic ignition trial: successful.

Small. Short. The first of many.

Mission Blue Frost begins. ❄️🔥

#MakeInIndia #SpaceTech

[ANI @ANI]

#WATCH | Delhi: Head Constable Babu Lal, who was injured during the CJP protest yesterday, says, "Suddenly, a crowd came and I couldn't understand anything. They grabbed me and beat me so badly. There must have been at least 3-4 thousand people... There were stones, sticks, and knives. I don't know where. Some of them were good people too. They saved me. They broke my head. They broke my arm. I have a grievous injury on my head too. I couldn't understand what was happening. It happened yesterday evening. We were there since morning. Our duty had been going on there since 8:00 AM. The crowd had been there all day long. It was quite crowded, and in the evening, people became even more aggressive. This happened near The Park Hotel... They beat me quite a bit. Then there were some good boys among them. They saved me. Some people were even holding a knife... I don't recognize them..."

[Delhi Police @DelhiPolice]

A uniform does not make a person feel less pain.
Behind every badge is a beating heart, a family and a promise to serve.
Seeing on-duty police personnel assaulted is deeply disturbing.

Disagreement can have a voice.
Violence should never have a place.

@LtGovDelhi

#DPUpdates

[ANI @ANI]

Delhi Police tweets, "A routine quarterly renewal of powers under the National Security Act (NSA) has been falsely linked to the ongoing CJP protests. The renewal predates the protests and is part of the standard administrative process. Citizens are advised to rely only on official information and avoid sharing misinformation."

[Ayush Tiwari @ayush9050]

Mega thread on Cockroach Janata Party rioters

-vandalizing properties
-assaulting police officers
-assaulting journalists
-stealing police gears
-raising anti-national regime change slogans
-& more

60+ clips, and adding more...

[Reveal Facts @facts_reveal]

All these social media influencers sold out for a bit of money, lol, just imagine if a war broke out with China these people would be dancing with the Chinese government's cock in their mouths.

[Trains of India 🇮🇳 @trainwalebhaiya]

You can fix the country, but not the people :)

[Trains of India 🇮🇳 @trainwalebhaiya]

Locomotive trial successful on Bridge No. 164 (Noney Bridge) the World's Tallest Pier Bridge 🚆

Part of the 111-km Jiribam-Imphal railway line, this engineering marvel features 141m high piers, the tallest of any bridge in the world 🔥