Space & Technology 2025

Space & Technology 2025 

=>Water fly technology: It is a technology for sea gliders that are meant to take off from water bodies and fly at an altitude of about four meters and can fly up to 150 meters

Waterfly Technologies, a startup incubated at IIT-Madras, is developing electric sea gliders as an alternative form of travel to traditional airplanes and ferries. The designs which were recently showcased at Aero India 2025 in Bengaluru caught the attention of Mahindra Group chairman, Anand Mahindra on X

=>ISRO made its 100th rocket launch: ISRO successfully launches NVS-02 satellite; creates history with the 100th launch from Sriharikota

The GSLV-F15 with the NVS-02 satellite lifted off from the spaceport’s second launch pad at 6.23 a.m.

=>India successfully conducts historic space-docking test: Indian space agency Isro has for the first time successfully conducted space docking by joining together two small craft in space.

The mission called SpaDeX blasted off from Sriharikota launch pad in southern India on 30 December. The two spacecraft, launched on a single rocket, separated in space. The docking process, initially scheduled for 7 January, was rescheduled a number of times.

On Thursday morning, the space agency announced that it had created history by becoming only the fourth country in the world with such technology after United States, Russia and China

=>In A First, Life Sprouts On ISRO's Space Lab: Cowpea seeds sent on the PS4-Orbital Experiment Module as part of the SpaDeX mission have germinated. Cowpea seeds sent on the PS4-Orbital Experiment Module (POEM), or the Bharatiya Space Lab, have germinated in the near zero-gravity and enclosed surroundings of space - and leaves are also expected to grow soon.

This experiment was part of the SpaDeX or space docking experiment launched on December 30, 2024, using the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV).