Rohit Jayas

[Rohit Jayas @rohitjayas]

@havellsindia Extremely poor taste of your "No Aaguddin" ad showing childrens exam center/school being shown in complete fire, nobody wishes the same ever! Am sure you have much better creative minds at your end to work out something better and we trust you on that.

[Malay Krishna @Malay4Product]

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!

[Rohit Jayas @rohitjayas]

@Ananth_IRAS Lovely perspective!

[Rohit Jayas @rohitjayas]

@SSBCrack 🙏🙏

[Sougat Chakraborty @sougat18]

Solid Explainer on INS Aridhaman by @SandeepUnnithan Please do listen in.

[Rohit Jayas @rohitjayas]

@KalamCenter 🙏🙏

[Rohit Jayas @rohitjayas]

@37VManhas 🙏🙏

[Rohit Jayas @rohitjayas]

@maveinlux @thebajajgroup 76.8% oil is LLP - Light Liquid Paraffin Oil, derived from Petroleum products! Completely avoidable.

[Rohit Jayas @rohitjayas]

@arunpally @Wonder_La "Inverto"

[ThatsWhatSheSaid @zeishahamlani]

Bengaluru Roads 🫠

Tag whoever needs to be tagged. We need to start holding people accountable

#Bengaluru

[Rohit Jayas @rohitjayas]

@anandmahindra @MahindraRise Sir, Pranaam would you and your organisation be able to help this Gorkha Military Inter College on its existence which has given us war heroes and is meant for their kids? https://t.co/9f8xkvmWje

[Civic Opposition of India @CivicOp_india]

🆘🆘🆘
A humble request to all companies on Outer Ring Road — @Infosys, @Wipro, @GoogleIndia, @AccentureIndia, @IntelIndia, @Cisco, @0RRCA — please do something!
We can’t spend 6 hours a day just sitting in traffic in Bengaluru! 🙏🏻😞
#BengaluruTraffic #Bengaluru

[Rohit Jayas @rohitjayas]

@blrcitytraffic @wftrps Serious shame on you how you're managing the traffic on the Varthur Road!! Pathetic traffic and zero traffic management! #bengalurutraffic Do your Job!

[Narendra Modi @narendramodi]

#OperationSindoor on the games field.

Outcome is the same - India wins!

Congrats to our cricketers.

[Sheetal Chopra 🇮🇳 @SheetalPronamo]

At Adani Vizhinjam Port, history is being written:

9 women from #Kerala’s fishing community now operate giant automated cranes — first in India.

750+ homes run kitchen gardens, saving ₹900/month.

6,500 women trained in digital literacy.

As @ManjuWarrier4 said: “Nature’s blessing. Human will. Women’s power!”

#InclusiveGrowth #WomenEmpowerment

[Civic Opposition of India @CivicOp_india]

Work done by PWD: 3km done out of 7km work order!

Pwd Minister: Buying Helicopters!
Only possible in Karnataka.

[Civic Opposition of India @CivicOp_india]

Hosa Road, Bengaluru! See the unique design of @GBA_office engineering — creating an elevated drainage that has created an unnecessary speed breaker, destroying roads and causing jams! Don’t know what they smoke. Is their engineering degree genuine? @GBAChiefComm @DKShivakumar @BSCCoffic @siddaramaiah

[Civic Opposition of India @CivicOp_india]

Here’s proof that nothing in #Bengaluru ever gets done 100%.
This is a CDP (Comprehensive Development Plan) road, Carmelaram meant to decongest the chaotic IT corridor.

👉 5 years in the making.
👉 Just 1 km long.
👉 Still incomplete.

The road falls under @MALimbavali’s constituency. It’s missing from the work orders of @GBAChiefComm, @DKShivakumar, and @siddaramaiah for years!

#BrandBengaluru

[Caleb @caleb_friesen]

got the high score on Pothole Patrol: Sarjapur Road

I lived on Sarjapur Road for multiple years. met multiple small accidents due to potholes + silt/sand between 2018 and 2023. always kept dettol and bandages in my backpack

which stretch in Bengaluru should I patrol next?

[Civic Opposition of India @CivicOp_india]

Respected @DKShivakumar avare,
If all the tax money is spent only in the CBD area, the genuine demands of the IT corridor will appear like a conspiracy or blackmail! Please open your eyes and see the reality of Varthur–Panathur Road! @MALimbavali