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!

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

Bengaluru Roads 🫠 Tag whoever needs to be tagged. We need to start holding people accountable #Bengaluru

🆘🆘🆘 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

#OperationSindoor on the games field. Outcome is the same - India wins! Congrats to our cricketers.

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

Work done by PWD: 3km done out of 7km work order! x.com/CivicOp_india/status/1… Pwd Minister: Buying Helicopters! Only possible in Karnataka.

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

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

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?

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

Thanks to @LekiGoswami01 for highlighting what can only be described as a “submarine road” in Bengaluru a stretch so waterlogged, muddy and cratered that it looks more like a swimming pool than a city road. The craters here are literally bigger than those on the moon, and yet thousands of commuters, mostly tech professionals, are forced to wade through it every single day just to reach their offices. This isn’t some remote village track this is the Marathahalli–Kadubeesanahalli Road, one of the busiest corridors of the city. There is no proper black-pitching, no visible concrete, only an uneven mud track filled with potholes and dirty water. For residents and office-goers, every morning is a gamble between safety, delay, and vehicle damage. It’s humiliating to watch citizens of India’s “tech capital” forced to cross what looks like a public swimming pool instead of a road. And yet, no authority appears to be paying attention. Year after year, crores of rupees are collected as taxes and road levies, but there is no accountability for where that money goes. The negligence is staggering. Why is this basic, life-affecting infrastructure not a priority? Why is it that in a city that powers global technology, we cannot even ensure a passable road? This isn’t just inconvenience; it’s a collapse of civic duty. Authorities must stop issuing statements and start showing results on the ground. Citizens deserve roads, not excuses. Bengaluru’s reputation as a global tech hub is being dragged through the mud quite literally because of this kind of criminal neglect. #bangalore #bengaluru #Marathahalli @khurpenchh @YTKDIndia @DKShivakumar @PCMohanMP @Tejasvi_Surya @BlrCityPolice @blrcitytraffic @Jointcptraffic @CPBlr @DgpKarnataka @Lolita_TNIE @ChristinMP_

Let’s see what it takes to walk outside Google Bengaluru. One word: unsafe. Both sides’ footpaths are broken and encroached, while the service road is riddled with potholes. What should be the pride of Bengaluru is getting the least attention from GBA. The further you go, the worse it gets. We urge urgent action to restore safe, walkable footpaths here. #BrandBengaluru @GBA_office @GBAChiefComm @DKShivakumar @GbaEastCity7056

Why did Karnataka’s roads go wrong? 🤔 BJP, Congress & JDS – both State & Central must answer! 💰 We pay road cess & GST 🕳️ We get potholes & broken roads If we don’t raise our voice today, tomorrow it could be you or your loved ones. 💔 #Karnataka #Bengaluru #Infrastructure

Tears. Goosebumps. Inspiration Guaranteed. Karthik is a Prodigy🔥🔥🔥 So many lessons in this video. Watch fully and only then share with your audience... His parents are so so inspiring to raise an Autistic Child. What talent. God bless... #FI

Muthanallur Cross, Sarjapur Road — roads have turned into craters, resembling a war zone. @CMofKarnataka @DKShivakumar, half your term is over, but this stretch hasn’t seen a drop of tar! #BrandBengaluru #BengaluruRains

See the despair on Muthanallur Cross. This has become a daily thing. Roads are in terrible condition and unmotorable leading up to the junction. Takes minimum 30 mins to cross the junction everyday. @DKShivakumar @ArvindLBJP @MLAShivanna Please help.

@BBMPCOMM @BBMPAdmn ⚠️Unimaginable Potholes/Craters @ Muthanallur cross @ Sarjapura-Chandapura road junction. Entire junction is damaged & needs urgent repair @VoiceofSarjapur @SarjapuraRWA @FRIENDS_OF_SPEC Pls amplify @BangaloreMirror @TOIBengaluru @THBengaluru @VijayaKarnataka

Muthanallur Cross at Sarjapura-Chandapura junction is full of massive potholes, making it dangerous for all commuters. This can’t be ignored—authorities must act immediately to prevent disaster! #FixOurRoads #PotholeDanger #Sarjapura #BangaloreTraffic #BBMP @BBMPofficial

This one at Muthanallur junction is ~1feet deep and will certainly cause serious accident (splly for 2-wheelers) if not fixed asap