Articles

How Chennai startup Agnikul Cosmos flew the world's first single-piece 3D-printed rocket engine — and its plan to print rockets on demand and reach orbit.

Inside Chandrayaan-4, India's ambitious lunar sample-return mission — five modules, two LVM3 launches, orbital docking, and about 3 kg of Moon rock by 2028.

China's answer to Starlink: two vast LEO constellations, Guowang and Qianfan. Inside the deployment, the Long March launch bottleneck, and the orbital stakes.

A sourced, policy-level analysis of China's military space program: the PLA Aerospace Force, counterspace capabilities, BeiDou, ISR growth, and space norms.

Meet the four Indian Air Force test pilots training to become India's first astronauts on Gaganyaan — and how one of them already flew to the ISS.

How IN-SPACe, India's single-window space regulator, split roles with ISRO and NSIL, liberalized FDI, and turned one startup into 300-plus in six years.

Skyroot's Vikram-1 vs Agnikul's Agnibaan: how India's two leading private launch startups compare on technology, funding, and timelines against Rocket Lab.

How ISRO's Mangalyaan reached Mars orbit on its first attempt for about $74M — the engineering, the frugal-genius story, what it found, and Mangalyaan-2.

Inside Pixxel, the Bengaluru startup flying the world's highest-resolution hyperspectral constellation — Firefly, NASA, Rio Tinto and a whole new market.

From Project 921 and Yang Liwei's 2003 first flight to Tiangong crew rotations, the Mengzhou spacecraft and a 2030 Moon landing — the Shenzhou story.

How two ex-ISRO engineers built Skyroot into India's first private rocket firm and first space unicorn — Vikram-1, Dhawan engines, and Mission Aagaman.

Boeing's Starliner flew two astronauts to the ISS in 2024 but came home empty. What went wrong with its thrusters, how the crew got back, and what comes next.