Tag:India

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.

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.

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.

India's Gaganyaan will put Indian astronauts in orbit on a homegrown rocket. Meet the vyomnauts, understand the spacecraft, and learn what's at stake.

Gaganyaan will make India the fourth nation to launch its own astronauts — inside ISRO's crew module, GSLV Mk III, and the 2023 TV-D1 abort test that proved it works.

How ISRO made India the 4th nation on the Moon — and the first at the lunar south pole — for $75 million. Chandrayaan-3's Vikram lander, Pragyan rover, and what it discovered.

Skyroot, Agnikul, Pixxel, and Dhruva Space lead 300+ Indian startups with over half a billion dollars in funding — how IN-SPACe unlocked a private space sector rivaling the US

Every Moon soft-landing attempt from Luna 2 and Luna 9 to Chandrayaan-3, SLIM, Odysseus, Blue Ghost, and Chang'e 6 — the successes, the crashes, and the countries