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Parth Pandya retweeted
India has its own Fast Steering Mirror (FSM)! 🇮🇳
Bengaluru-Based QOSMIC’s FSM has cleared thermal vacuum and vibration qualification, both on the first attempt.
The FSM is the fine-pointing core of every optical link. It holds a laser locked on target while everything around it moves, making hundreds of tiny corrections every second.
It can perform satellite to ground, satellite to satellite, ground to ground fine-pointing.
Very few suppliers have such class of hardware in the world. QOSMIC has developed and space-qualified it in less than a year.
Next step, launch to orbit!
Congrats @QOSMIC__Space! This is really increadible and inspiring! Looking forward to your future endeavors.
Parth Pandya retweeted
Nine months ago, this did not exist.
Today, India can build its own Fast Steering Mirror. QOSMIC’s FSM has cleared thermal vacuum and vibration qualification, both on the first attempt.
The FSM is the fine-pointing core of every optical link: satellite to ground, satellite to satellite, ground to ground. It holds a laser locked on target while everything around it moves, making hundreds of tiny corrections every second.
To put that precision in perspective: lay a grid over Rashtrapati Bhavan. From 500 km above your head, our FSM is designed to point a laser link at any single point on it.
Only two or three suppliers worldwide build this class of hardware. So we built ours.
From nothing to space-qualified in under a year.
Built to survive launch. Now it waits for one 👀
#ICSO2026 #ICSO #NewSpaceIndia #OpticalCommunications #LaserCommunication
@Jain_Shrey_ @RohitKR79 @aalokelab @shashank_huh @js_2606
@Accel @AccelAtoms @AccelIndia @spc_india @spc @artparkindia
Parth Pandya retweeted
Today we give India the capability to control Light at its finest level
It was always of paramount importance to us to enable the control stack for Laser based communication.
Pointing and Tracking over line of sights are often the hardest challenges and FSMs sits at the heart of it.
This is why we knew we had to put our brains and brawns behind it. Incredible hard-work by the QOSMIC teams in making this piece of the puzzle come alive.
Exciting updates soon 🚀👀
Nine months ago, this did not exist.
Today, India can build its own Fast Steering Mirror. QOSMIC’s FSM has cleared thermal vacuum and vibration qualification, both on the first attempt.
The FSM is the fine-pointing core of every optical link: satellite to ground, satellite to satellite, ground to ground. It holds a laser locked on target while everything around it moves, making hundreds of tiny corrections every second.
To put that precision in perspective: lay a grid over Rashtrapati Bhavan. From 500 km above your head, our FSM is designed to point a laser link at any single point on it.
Only two or three suppliers worldwide build this class of hardware. So we built ours.
From nothing to space-qualified in under a year.
Built to survive launch. Now it waits for one 👀
#ICSO2026 #ICSO #NewSpaceIndia #OpticalCommunications #LaserCommunication
@Accel @AccelAtoms @AccelIndia @spc_india @spc @artparkindia
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Parth Pandya retweeted
People. The locations you’re having tower 4G/5G problems, you’ll continue having those problems with Starlink.
That’s a physics problem due to physical barriers like walls.
Starlink does not fix your building not taking into account RF loss.
Parth Pandya retweeted
We could only trace the mumbai attacker terrorist conversation because we had control over the signals.
What if a white man sells his ultra encrypted SAT-COM network which is not in Indian control? Just imagine.
What if government wants to support him, but he doesn't want to wait for security clearances and just push for storming his satcom signals over India?
What if terrorists use that to communicate back to their masters. Who ever is batting for @elonmusk and pre-mature , unregulated release of starlink should remember that, if the blood flows, it's on their hand.
Doesn't matter what party they're from, doesn't matter if they are the leader of what ever place. They're comprimising an entire nation for a white man.
Parth Pandya retweeted
Is Ambani the real boss of India? Yes he is
Starlink is security issue
I wonder why you don't care about china or Russian people access to Starlink they are not human?
#BanStarlinkIndia
Parth Pandya retweeted
US also does not allow chinese sat com or Russian satcom. This is a crime against hard working US citizens. Such hypocrisy @elonmusk ☺️
Parth Pandya retweeted
Starlink only scaled because of laser links. Most of the world measures Starship in tonnage but for elon its about downlinking capacity per launch.
We absolutely need a sovereign space communication stack. NOW.
You are looking at the wrong end of the pipe, watch out for @AgnikulCosmos @SkyrootA @Digantarahq @VyomIC_Space @GalaxEye @QOSMIC__Space @inspecity @astrobase_space and many more @INSPACeIND @isro
Thanks in a small way to the US too, for closing the immigration pathway and pushing back so much talent to India!
Unfortunately the way SpaceX capabilities have been weaponized makes it a suspect company. India and the business landscape here has many problems with the so-called oligarchs and conglomerates, but SpaceX cribbing about being blocked from India because of them is the least of our concerns!
We remember the nefarious and infamous “Free Basics” pushed by Facebook and other patronizing, new colonization efforts by US Big Tech. India is not falling for it!
You won’t be able to turn Indians against Indians like the British did. But surely it is a great thing for Indian citizens and consumers if some Indian conglomerates are pushing back against SpaceX with the Indian government’s blessings.
🚀 🇮🇳
Parth Pandya retweeted
come help me improve our twt game pls
Calling the Indian Space Community!
@QOSMIC__Space is looking for a Social Media Intern.
Love space launches, PR & science communication? Want to make SPACE LASERS exciting online?
Let’s set a new standard for Space PR.
Apply 👇 (1/2)
Parth Pandya retweeted
I stand with Prof. Suryanarayan Doolla
The facts are now out
1. No complaint was made against him to IITB SC/ST cell or the police.
2. Multiple testimonies(attached) from students who have interacted with him(including some from SC/ST community) confirming his character.
3. No evidence or witnessed provided for the accusation
4. A multi-decade long career with no similar accusations been made(even after he was booked)
But the icing on the cake that convinces me that the probability the accusations are true is close to zero was the fact that the following allegation has been made:
- “Prof. Doolla hurled caste based abuses at the behest of the Director”
Anybody who has half a brain-cell and has seen any large institution functioning can tell- that couldn’t possibly be true.
IITB has 10000+ students from bachelors, masters, phd, a large chunk of whom are from SC/ST communities - the insinuation that the director of such a large institution would personally encourage the abuse of an individual second year undergrad student- is laughable at best.
Even if we believe this for a minute- among thousands of possible students, why would only a single student be singled out for this? Where is there an accusation from even a single other person of such systemic abuse?
And if you can’t present any, do you honestly believe that the director of such a huge institute would leave all his work aside and specifically target only a single student?
They should at least have made their lies more believable.
I am truly saddened by the incident and think we need to reflect on what we are doing wrong as a society that we’re having suicides at our premiere institutes every couple of months. I also can’t imagine what his friends and family are going through today and hope they get the strength to get past this.
But this sad incidence does not justify the unfair witch-hunt against Prof. Doolla and the torture him and his family are being subject to right now.
To the best of the knowledge about the series of events- All he did was do his job - and he is being punished for that.
Given the circumstances, the least he is owed is a presumption of innocence as the investigation occurs.
It’s a dark day when you start punishing your brightest minds simply for doing their job.
I hope collective sense is restored and we can all move past this.
Parth Pandya retweeted
Most people in business development inherit a market. Here you get to create one.
QOSMIC is hiring a Business Development Lead in Bangalore, working directly with me.
Patented laser comms, already field-validated, backed by Accel, Prosus and South Park Commons.
You own the commercial motion end to end: international operators, defence primes, government agencies. First contracts, first pricing, first playbook.
2-3+ years in space, aerospace or defence hardware. 30-40L including ESOPs. Passport ready.
[email protected], with the deals you have closed.
#SpaceTech #Hiring #DeepTech #BusinessDevelopment
linkedin.com/jobs/view/44678…
Parth Pandya retweeted
The bottleneck for satellite data isn't in orbit. It's in the last 20 km of atmosphere.
At LASER World of Photonics India, our CTO @RohitKR79 made the case for 6G optical feeder links: a quantum link is the same optical link with an unforgiving signal. Build the ground stack for high-capacity optical, and the quantum highway runs on the same road.
He also pushed for true self-reliance on the quantum panel: indigenisation means owning the component design, testing, and process, not just final assembly.
#FreeSpaceOptics #DeepTech
Parth Pandya retweeted
Interesting question, glad you asked!
When a satellite sends data using a laser instead of radio, a telescope on the ground has to catch that light. The more light it catches, the stronger the signal and the more data comes through. Until now the only way to catch more light was to build a bigger telescope, and big telescopes get expensive, heavy and hard to build very fast.
QOSMIC found a smarter way. They use several smaller telescopes that work together like one big telescope. Each one sits on its own mount that tilts, rotates to follow the satellite and absorbs vibration. Mirrors then send the light from all of them to one central unit, where it gets combined into a single signal. That signal is as strong as one big telescope with the same total size as all the small ones put together.
So if you need more capacity, you just add more telescopes instead of building a whole new station. It's cheaper, modular and much faster to set up. This is the tech behind ARGUS, their ground station built for 10 Gbps downlinks from satellites in LEO, MEO and GEO.
And the achievement is that an Indian startup now holds a US patent on the core design of next-gen optical ground stations. Big moment for Indian space tech as satellite data moves from radio to laser 🇮🇳
Parth Pandya retweeted
Bengaluru-based QOSMIC has secured a US patent for ARGUS, its optical ground station technology. 🇮🇳
Its phased telescope array acts as one aperture, enabling modular, scalable laser uplink & downlink, sending data to satellites and receiving it without a giant telescope.
Parth Pandya retweeted
📡 @QOSMIC__Space has been granted a US patent by the United States Patent and Trademark Office for its modular optical ground station architecture. Using an array of phased telescopes as a single aperture, it enables scalable, high-capacity laser satellite communications.
Parth Pandya retweeted
Congratulations COSMIC. This technology development is critical for the nation to achieve high throughput communication from future constellations and for secured communication networks. Good example of academy-industry collaborative research.
#SomanathSpeak
QOSMIC has been granted a US patent by the United States Patent and Trademark Office. We've been working toward this for just under a year, and it's a proud day for the whole team.
For decades, optical ground stations have been built around one assumption: if you want to collect more light from a satellite, you need a bigger telescope. Past a point, that stopped making sense.
Our optical ground station uses an array of phased telescopes acting as one aperture. It's the architecture behind ARGUS, and it turns a ground station from a fixed piece of infrastructure into something modular, that scales with the constellation it serves. Both uplink and downlink.
Why this matters now: as satellite data moves from radio to light, the ground has to keep up. The constellations going up need far more data brought down, faster and more efficiently than today's stations can manage. This patent embodies the core of how we solve that.
The ground stations of the next era won't look like the ones we have today. This is just the start, and we're moving fast.
@Jain_Shrey_ @RohitKR79 @aalokelab @AccelIndia @AccelAtoms @Accel @spc @artparkindia @spc_india @_pagarwal @MBalachand90142 @prateekmehta42 @ankitcc @adityaag @JPBrebner @nayankote
Parth Pandya retweeted
QOSMIC has been granted a US patent by the United States Patent and Trademark Office for Multi-aperture telescope system.
Parth Pandya retweeted
Didn't get time to meet the QOSMIC team at #BSX2026 because of a tight schedule, but we did get our hands on their brochure and some stickers, so thanks @QOSMIC__Space for that!
Big congratulations to @Jain_Shrey_, @RohitKR79 and the whole QOSMIC team on the US patent (US 12,732,273 B1) for their multi-aperture telescope system. A special shoutout to @phpandya28, a longtime member of indian our space community who is also part of the QOSMIC team!
Instead of building one giant telescope, they combine an array of smaller ones that work as a single aperture. It's modular and grows with the constellation it serves.
What they're building:
🔭 ARGUS, the optical ground station: 10 Gbps downlink, tracks LEO, MEO and GEO, and is ready for cislunar
🛰️ ZAPHOD, a laser terminal for satellites: fits in under 4U, 1 to 10 Gbps, 1550 nm
Radio links move megabits. Optical links move 10 to 100 Gbps. An Indian team is building the ground side of that shift, and it's great to see.
#QOSMIC #IndianSpace #OpticalComms #SpaceTech
Parth Pandya retweeted
A year ago this was three people and a claim nobody wanted to fund. Today we have our first granted US patent.
The claim was simple. Astronomy spent a century teaching optics to make pictures. Downlink does not need a picture, it needs photons. Treat light as a signal and the entire cost curve of a ground station changes: many small apertures instead of one giant mirror, with the pointing and tracking doing the hard work.
That patent is the first brick in the Optical Highway to the Cosmos. Here is to many more contrarian bets in science and engineering.
QOSMIC has been granted a US patent by the United States Patent and Trademark Office. We've been working toward this for just under a year, and it's a proud day for the whole team.
For decades, optical ground stations have been built around one assumption: if you want to collect more light from a satellite, you need a bigger telescope. Past a point, that stopped making sense.
Our optical ground station uses an array of phased telescopes acting as one aperture. It's the architecture behind ARGUS, and it turns a ground station from a fixed piece of infrastructure into something modular, that scales with the constellation it serves. Both uplink and downlink.
Why this matters now: as satellite data moves from radio to light, the ground has to keep up. The constellations going up need far more data brought down, faster and more efficiently than today's stations can manage. This patent embodies the core of how we solve that.
The ground stations of the next era won't look like the ones we have today. This is just the start, and we're moving fast.
@Jain_Shrey_ @RohitKR79 @aalokelab @AccelIndia @AccelAtoms @Accel @spc @artparkindia @spc_india @_pagarwal @MBalachand90142 @prateekmehta42 @ankitcc @adityaag @JPBrebner @nayankote