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Industry News
Mission Drishti, launched by Bengaluru-based startup GalaxEye on May 3, 2026 aboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket, marks an important moment for India’s private space industry. The satellite is being described as the world’s first “OptoSAR” mission as it combines Electro-Optical (EO) and Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) sensors on a single platform. This allows it to capture images in cloudy weather and even during nighttime conditions.
Weighing 190 kg, Mission Drishti is also India’s largest privately developed Earth observation satellite. Developed over more than five years, the project reflects how Indian startups are increasingly building advanced space technologies that were once limited largely to government agencies.
The satellite is expected to support applications across agriculture, disaster management, defence, maritime monitoring, and infrastructure planning. GalaxEye has partnered with NewSpace India Limited (NSIL), ISRO’s commercial arm, for the global distribution of the satellite’s imagery. Initial data from the mission is expected to be released in the coming weeks, while the company plans to gradually expand Mission Drishti into a larger satellite constellation over the next few years.
Partnerships & Collaborations
Cadence has expanded its collaboration with NVIDIA to bring agentic AI into chip, system, and AI factory design. The partnership combines GPU-accelerated EDA and SDA tools, the ChipStack AI Super Agent, and the Reality Digital Twin Platform with NVIDIA Omniverse for physics-based simulation and large-scale AI infrastructure planning.
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The collaboration leverages virtual twin technology combining generative AI, 3D chemical modeling, and simulation on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, to predict how plant-based active ingredients interact with skin and bring natural beauty formulations to market with fewer lab trials.
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Simulations Plus has partnered with three pharmaceutical companies to advance AI-enabled modeling in drug development. The collaborations will explore AI applications across platforms including GastroPlus®, MonolixSuite™, ADMET Predictor®, and Thales™, with a focus on data automation, simulation workflows, and pharmaceutical research standardization.
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TWH, a DITEC-certified Chilean modular construction company, uses Altair SimSolid to address structural validation challenges in its prefabricated bathroom pod designs. The meshless simulation tool aims to eliminate conventional geometry preparation and meshing, enabling engineers to directly import detailed CAD assemblies and analyse critical load cases, including crane lifting stresses and buckling, to ensure structural integrity before manufacturing.
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With AI proliferation, next-generation mobile networks, and growing data storage needs pushing the limits of conventional electronics, silicon photonics has emerged as a critical solution. Cadence aims to address the challenge of simulating electronic and photonic circuits separately by introducing the Spectre Photonics Option, merging both domains into a single simulation engine within its Virtuoso Studio environment.
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Keysight Technologies has expanded its Virtual Manufacturing Portfolio by adding assembly simulation capabilities. The solution aims to help engineers in automotive and industrial manufacturing identify distortion and dimensional risks earlier in development, through guided workflows that replicate shop-floor processes including part positioning, clamping, and joining without requiring finite element modeling expertise.
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Ansys addresses centrifugal pump design challenges faced by OEMs through a combination of multiphysics simulation, optimization, and AI. By integrating CFD and FEA solvers with Ansys optiSLang, OEMs aim to explore pump designs operating closest to the best efficiency point, assessed through head capacity and flow rate simulations. The Ansys SimAI cloud platform then enables physics-based generative modelling, supporting new design creation and compliance with the EU Energy-related Products Directive.
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Industry Events
This webinar examines simulation workflows used to analyze acoustic performance arising from structural vibration and aeroacoustics. The session aims to cover MBD-driven vibration excitation, vibro-acoustic and sound propagation workflows, and end-to-end aero-vibro-acoustic analysis, including noise prediction using the Lighthill acoustic analogy. It will also outline Ansys 2026 R1 NVH enhancements focused on workflow efficiency and reduced solution time across automotive, aerospace, UAV and applications.
🗓️ May 13, 2026
🕚 11:00 – 12:00 EDT
This webinar provides an overview of modeling granular materials using the Granular Flow Module in COMSOL Multiphysics®. It aims to demonstrate simulation approaches for processes such as hopper discharge, silo storage, particle mixing, segregation, and powder spreading. The session also covers particle-scale interactions, bulk material behavior, and the application of multiphysics simulation techniques for analyzing industrial granular flow processes.
🗓️ May 14, 2026
🕚 11:00 – 12:00 EDT
This session focuses on subsystem-level modelling approaches used in Formula Student vehicle development and simulation workflows.
Join the webinar to explore:
- Tire modelling workflows, including data import, fitting, and integration into vehicle simulations
- Multibody suspension modelling for representing suspension kinematics and dynamics
- Electric powertrain modelling covering battery packs, motors, and motor controllers
- System-level interaction of vehicle subsystems for performance analysis and reusable simulation frameworks
🗓️ May 19, 2026
🕢 07:30 – 08:45 IST
This webinar focuses on the role of digitalization and simulation technologies in supporting industrial decarbonization and energy transition initiatives.
Join the webinar to explore:
- The application of digital twins for energy and thermal system analysis
- Methods for evaluating operational performance before implementation
- Approaches to energy flexibility, heat recovery, and system optimization
- Strategies for supporting data-driven operational and sustainability decisions
In FOCUS
Company in Focus
Who they are
What if cities could simulate their future before building it?
Fluidit is making that vision possible through simulation.
Fluidit is a Finland-based simulation technology company focused on helping utilities and cities make smarter decisions about critical infrastructure.
Working closely with utilities, consultants, and city planners, Fluidit brings simulation-driven decision-making into everyday operations making complex infrastructure systems more predictable, efficient, and resilient.
Solutions & Technology
Fluidit goes beyond traditional analytics. Its core lies in physics-based digital twins models that don’t just visualize systems but actually behave like them.
Whether it’s water flowing through pipelines or heat moving across a district network, Fluidit’s simulations replicate real-world physics. This allows engineers to explore “what-if” scenarios and optimize performance before making real-world changes. The platform spans water, wastewater, stormwater, and district energy systems, connecting planning with real-time operations.
Applications:
From preventing urban floods to optimizing heating networks, Fluidit’s technology is quietly shaping how cities function.
Utilities use it to improve water distribution efficiency, manage stormwater and flood risks, and design sustainable energy networks. It is also increasingly used to build city-scale digital twins, supporting long-term planning and resilience.
Did you know?
Fluidit’s simulation approach is rooted in advanced hydraulic modeling, enabling it to predict system behavior even under conditions that haven’t yet occurred.
Fluidit’s physics-based digital twins are trusted by utilities like Fortum and Helsinki Region Environmental Services (HSY), enabling them to simulate and optimize infrastructure before changes are made on the ground.”
Technology Focus
Imagine walking into a modern open-plan office — bright, collaborative, and buzzing with activity. But beneath that energy lies a persistent challenge: noise.
Open-plan layouts, while visually appealing and space-efficient, often struggle with uncontrolled sound propagation and elevated noise levels, a growing concern for engineers in the architecture, engineering, and construction industries. Traditional trial-and-error approaches during physical construction are neither practical nor cost-effective when it comes to acoustic optimization.
This is where simulation steps in. As detailed by Mackenzie McCarty on the COMSOL Blog, COMSOL Multiphysics® aims to tackle this problem through its Acoustics of an Open-Plan Office Space tutorial model — analyzing sound behavior digitally before a single wall goes up. The model uses a wave-based, time-domain approach, incorporating:
- Frequency-dependent impedance conditions for surfaces like carpet, ceiling, and gypsum wall boards
- Partial Fraction Fit function to translate frequency-domain impedance data into the time domain
- Absorbing layers to replicate the acoustic behavior of an open window
Microphone points placed throughout the virtual office capture impulse responses and level decay curves across octave bands, enabling accurate computation of reverberation time using a full-wave method. With multi-GPU support introduced in version 6.4, COMSOL Multiphysics® aims to reduce simulation time compared to standard CPU processing making acoustic design more feasible to explore early in the planning process.