Ram Bhaskara

postdoc @dartmouth | computational sensing & GNC | phd @TAMUAero | visiting research @NASAJPL | alum @ReachNITT

[Naga Bharath Daka @bharathdaka]

After years of staying mostly silent here, I wanted to share what this moment truly means for us.

Reaching orbit with Vikram-1 is the culmination of an incredibly long and difficult journey. Over the last few years, Team Skyroot pushed relentlessly through missed aggressive deadlines, technical hurdles, and moments when the finish line kept moving. We never lost hope. Not once.

This success feels like redemption for every late night, every difficult choice, and every person who refused to give up on the dream.

The flight has given us a treasure of high-fidelity data. We will use every bit of it to make our vehicle subsystems significantly more robust and to optimize performance across the entire system.

For any launch company, achieving orbit is the single hardest milestone. Productionizing this capability, turning this success into reliable, repeatable flights, is now our central focus.

To every member of Team Skyroot who carried this dream when it was hardest, and to everyone who stood with us through the quiet years: thank you. This is your victory too.

To the entire nation that has celebrated this achievement with so much warmth and pride, thank you! It has meant more to us than words can express.

The real work begins now. 🚀

@SkyrootA

[Ram Bhaskara @ram_bhaskara]

👏 inspiring!

[Skyroot Aerospace @SkyrootA]

ORBIT ACHIEVED. 🚀

Vikram-1 Test Flight-1 has reached orbit. India's first privately developed orbital rocket has completed its final burn and injected its payloads into a ~450 km orbit, making India the third country in the world with private orbital launch capability.

History is made. 🇮🇳

#Vikram1 #JourneyToOrbit #SkyrootAerospace

[Ram Bhaskara @ram_bhaskara]

2030s.
How do you want your drinks? "On the Moon rocks".
That is the future we hope to see. #moonbase

[NASA Artemis @NASAArtemis]

Earthset.

The Artemis II crew captured this view of an Earthset on April 6, 2026, as they flew around the Moon. The image is reminiscent of the iconic Earthrise image taken by astronaut Bill Anders 58 years earlier as the Apollo 8 crew flew around the Moon.

[Ram Bhaskara @ram_bhaskara]

Direct to cell is the new frontier. Serving the remotest areas is challenging but super important. Credits to engineering at @AST_SpaceMobile.

[Abel Avellan @AbelAvellan]

Congratulations to Prime Minister @narendramodi, @isro, and @NSIL_India on the successful launch of our BlueBird 6 satellite—the largest-ever commercial communications satellite in low Earth orbit.🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀

Perfect execution from both teams in India and the U.S. We are now in control of BlueBird 6 from our D.C. command center and with nominal telemetry! 🇺🇸🤠💪

[Ram Bhaskara @ram_bhaskara]

@cgihou Consular office,
The VFS monopoly in managing passport services is beyond words. Never have I (or my network) ever seen a customer care service that charges $2.48/min for an inferior service that requires us to tell the whole story for everytime. 0 response to emails.

[Yu Xiang @YuXiang_IRVL]

When I started learning robotics, I was lost in terms like stiffness, damping, and feedback control.
These slides on the overview of robot control can help you understand what they really mean #Robotics
https://t.co/gkppWBf2v0

[Piyush Itankar @_streetdogg]

For anyone wanting to start from the basics. Get a copy.

(I don’t do paid promotions. I got my copy and found the text to be something I’ll save for the next generation)

Let me know if you have other recommendations.

[Ram Bhaskara @ram_bhaskara]

seeing starship go up is visceral. life’s good. #StarshipFlight11 @SpaceX

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Final descent and splashdown of Starship on Flight 11, captured by the SpaceX recovery team in the Indian Ocean

[Ram Bhaskara @ram_bhaskara]

@MehdiHacks If starlink uses intersatellite links for better orbit determination & timing, reducing the positional uncertainty, it probably can achieve much higher precision. starlink, kuiper, kepler are likely building their own gps solutions.

[Vicharak @Vicharak_In]

Two decades ago, Arduino put a microcontroller in every student’s hand, revolutionizing grassroots education.

Today, as Arduino begins a new chapter in another domain, we’re opening the next chapter in education: putting FPGAs into every student’s hand.

We’re delighted to introduce Shrike-Lite, the world’s most affordable FPGA development board, priced at just ₹349 / $4.

Shrike-Lite combines an MCU (RP2040) with an FPGA (ForgeFPGA – 1K LUT) on a single board, unlocking hands-on learning for thousands of students and makers.

Even with a 1K LUT FPGA, you can build:
– Custom UART / SPI / I²C cores
– LED and PWM drivers
– Simple robotics controllers
– Tiny accelerators and logic blocks
– Many more digital-logic projects

Since Shrike-Lite is a pet project at Vicharak, we’re keeping everything open-source, hardware, software, and toolchains, with complete software support from our team.

We’re opening pre-orders for the first 1,000 units in India, starting now.

Which will be delivered by 15th Nov, 2025.

[NASA Mars @NASAMars]

After a year of scientific scrutiny, a rock sample collected by the Perseverance rover has been confirmed to contain a potential biosignature. The sample is the best candidate so far to provide evidence of ancient microbial life on Mars. https://t.co/0BAO1dhMG8

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Sometimes I say things so profound that people that it’s stupid.

And sometimes I say things so stupid that people thinks it’s profound.

[Itai Yanai @ItaiYanai]

Doing good science is 90% finding a science buddy to constantly talk to about the project.

[Ram Bhaskara @ram_bhaskara]

@gareebscientist Epic example of downsampling to save transmission bandwidth. I guess they prioritized continuous real-time streaming over HDR.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Starship to Mars

[Ram Bhaskara @ram_bhaskara]

Two words that bring down the stress levels of isro launches!

[ISRO Spaceflight @ISROSpaceflight]

ISRO's Range Operations Director at SHAR - Dr. G Grahadurai, best known for his iconic "Liftoff Narmal" callout, has retired today after serving ISRO for 38 years 🙏

[Ram Bhaskara @ram_bhaskara]

Comet Tsuchinshan-Atlas captured over Aggieland @TAMUPhysAstr

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Maiden launch of Falcon Heavy, the most powerful operational rocket on Earth, with the first dual rocket landing