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You have never seen the present. Light has a speed; touch has a delay. You live entirely inside a memory you mistake for now.

Check out our #LunchbreakwithLightspeed episode with @kalam_labs Co-Founder Ahmad Faraaz: 🔗 youtu.be/-uknmOE3IUw?si… 🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/2acmEo…

"Near space aerial dominance - that's what Kalam Labs primarily provides. This middle ground between conventional aerial systems and satellites is currently empty. And that's the territory we’re claiming." - Ahmad Faraaz Aligned with India’s push for Atmanirbharta in defense technology, Lucknow-based startup @kalam_labs is taking aerial intelligence and surveillance to new heights with indigenous stratospheric UAVs. In this edition of #FoundersFriday, meet the trio behind India’s most ambitious defense-tech ventures. 🪐 Ahmad Faraaz, Harshit Awasthi, and @sashakttripathi - alumni of BITS Pilani - founded Kalam Labs with an audacious mission: to push the boundaries of next-generation aerial defence technology. 🎯 The turning point came around Republic Day 2025, when their mission to autonomously navigate an uncrewed UAV through the upper atmosphere revealed their true potential: building technology that could reshape national defense. 🚀 Their autonomous near-space planes that fly at 100,000+ ft at close to supersonic speeds offer an unprecedented capability to conduct stealth surveillance and strike missions from the edge of space. Today, Kalam Labs has deployed autonomous space planes on frontlines and is developing supersonic near-space systems (Mach 3+) and stratospheric airships entirely in-house. Learn more about Kalam Labs and their mission to make India self-reliant in stratospheric defense technology: kalamlabs.in

At lightspeed, to the stars🚀

Startup Central | Kalam Labs on their origin story From working on robotics during engineering to launching drones post-Covid — Ahmad Faraaz, Sashakt Tripathi and Harshit Awasthi share how the idea took shape @SumitaKareer @kalam_labs @sashakttripathi

If aliens exist, why haven’t they visited Earth?

@elonmusk Future humans will also say so, as we look in archeology at humans of far past

“They are smart … for humans” – future AI

@CuriosityonX Yes! No animal understood fire, letters, engines and ice creams!

If birds never existed would humans ever dream of flying?

How big are your dreams?

engineering is the highest form of art

Literally everyone underestimated the takeoff on demand. Now chip supply crunch + energy shortage is going to have an upward cascading effect on cost & margins. Habit forming & high impact tools can raise prices, ride it out. The iron law of semicon investing never disappoints.

Stargazing is the best detox from the world

sea of stars ✨

Re-entry of Artemis II crew captured by the astronaut in International Space Station

engineers are the magicians of the highest order

Starship

🚀 for all mankind 🚀

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