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Lunar cooperation
The offer was recorded after an August 5–6 bilateral meeting in Bengaluru. Neither side announced Indian acceptance, funding, hardware or a mission assignment.
Navigation
A Rajya Sabha reply shows a four-satellite gap against NavIC’s seven-satellite design. NVS-03 is ready, but the government gave only a launch sequence—not launch dates—for rebuilding the base layer.
Lunar infrastructure
The company says power, data and mechanical interfaces can be reused after Gateway’s cancellation. It does not identify the flight hardware, funding, launch dates or landing providers.
Launch
The Bengaluru startup now calls the liquid-oxygen/methane unit a nominal 5 kN engine after earlier reporting 4.5 kN, while test data and a reusable-vehicle demonstration remain undisclosed.
Science
Two accepted studies use repeated spectra to separate variable Hα behaviour in Herbig stars from steadier Be signatures and continuum changes in evolved systems.
Industry
The contract gives the young Vietnamese venture a named route to orbit, but no mission number, spacecraft count or specifications, price, or fixed launch date is public.
In-space manufacturing
The recovered Alchemy module exercised avionics and a return sequence, but the disclosed record does not establish microgravity production or orbital qualification.
Solar science
The 6.40 keV signal tracked flare X-rays and weakened toward the solar limb, giving SoLEXS a possible way to constrain coronal source geometry—with important limits.
Commercial Earth observation
The spacecraft proved early-orbit systems and in-house mission operations, but GalaxEye says imaging never began; its solar-storm explanation remains preliminary as two larger follow-on satellites are planned.
Policy
The latest Parliament figures show capital and approvals rising after the 2020 reforms, while official documents leave key definitions unresolved and publish conflicting authorisation totals.
Launch
The 88%-thrust firing exercised ignition build-up, steady-state operation and the main turbopumps, but a full-power power head, complete engine and flight stage still remain.
Earth observation
Cycle 25 data is now flowing into an eight-product catalogue with about 48-hour operational latency, while historical scenes and calibration refinements remain works in progress.