Only non-NDA leader who congratulated Suvendu Adhikari 😳
Naveen Patnaik congratulates Bengal CM Suvendu Adhikari.
"I wish under Suvendu's leadership the state reaches new heights of development" - NAVEEN
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!
On the birth anniversary of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, which is commemorated as Parakram Diwas, we recall his indomitable courage, resolve and unparalleled contribution to the nation. He epitomised fearless leadership and unwavering patriotism. His ideals continue to inspire generations to build a strong India.
It has been 67 years since she left Earth…
and yet, her story still sits heavy on the human conscience.
Laika was not just a dog in a rocket.
She was trust, wrapped in fur.
A quiet heartbeat that believed humans would protect her—
because that is what dogs do.
Her real name was Kudryavka, meaning “curly.”
A stray from the frozen streets of Moscow.
No crown. No shelter. No choice.
She was chosen not for greatness,
but because she was calm, obedient, and strong enough to endure pain.
As if suffering itself became her qualification.
On November 3, 1957, she was placed inside Sputnik 2.
The capsule had food.
It had water.
It had padded walls.
But it had no return plan.
No goodbye.
No understanding.
No way home.
Some say she lived for a few hours.
Some say a few days.
What we know for certain is this—
Her final moments were spent alone,
orbiting a planet she could no longer touch,
surrounded by silence, fear, and heat—
unaware that the world below was cheering a victory built on her life.
Laika circled Earth 2,570 times.
A small body carrying the weight of human ambition.
Until, months later, her capsule burned up on re-entry—
and she disappeared into the same fire that made her a legend.
Laika never chose to be a pioneer.
She never asked to be history.
She never understood science, politics, or progress.
She only trusted.
And in that trust, she became the first living being
to bridge the distance between Earth and the stars.
Today, we don’t remember her with pride alone.
We remember her with gratitude,
with regret,
and with the quiet promise that progress should never forget compassion.
Because sometimes,
the bravest hearts don’t roar.
They beat softly…
and still change the world forever. 🐾🌍✨
#Laika #NeverForgotten #SpaceHistory #SilentHero #Courage #Sacrifice #HumanityAndScience #Gratitude #Guilt #StarsWithAHeartbeat
@ANI Thanks dear @Naveen_Odisha Ji, but I dont feel MLAs draw money from their salary account. They have many other sources and they dont rely on it. 😅
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