The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will launch the ‘ BlueBird-6 ’ satellite, developed with US-based AST SpaceMobile , in the first week of next month, ISRO Chairman V. Narayanan announced. The communication satellite will lift off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota. He said work on Chandrayaan-4 is progressing, with a 70–80-tonne rocket being designed for the lunar mission. The Centre has sanctioned `4,000 crore for India’s third rocket launch facility at Sriharikota, to be built through private partnerships under the Bharatiya Antariksha Station (BAS) project. Narayanan added that the Gaganyaan human spaceflight mission is 90% complete, with test flights beginning in December. Over 500 companies and 300 startups are engaged in India’s space sector, which

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