December 29, 2025 9:49 AM

Year-ender 2025: India’s space programme in 2025: Technology, diplomacy and the road to Space Vision 2047

India’s space programme marked a defining phase in 2025, combining major technological demonstrations, deeper global partnerships and a clear push towards long-term goals under Space Vision 2047. The Department of Space’s year-end review shows a year focused not just on launches, but on mastering complex capabilities needed for human spaceflight, future space stations and a competitive commercial ecosystem. Docking, biology and in-orbit experiments A key breakthrough came with the SPADEX (...