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Under the Chandrayaan-3 mission, India became 27
the first country in the world to successfully land
on the Moon’s south pole on August 23, 2023. The July 2025 saw the successful launch of the
landing site of the Chandrayaan-3 lander has been NISAR satellite—the world’s most advanced
named ‘Shiv Shakti’. It was decided to observe Earth-observation radar satellite—through
August 23 as National Space Day every year. India-US collaboration.
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Through the
SPADEX mission,
India became the
fourth country in the
world to master space
docking technology.
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With the Aditya-L1 mission, India The country’s computing capacity has surpassed 38,000
launched its first dedicated spacecraft to GPUs; an additional 20,000 GPUs are being added
study the Sun on September 2, 2023 under the National AI Mission. This will make artificial
intelligence accessible and affordable.
26 n Five semiconductor plants are 30
expected to be operational by
Major Achievement: Indian December 2026; commercial
astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla production has already commenced
completed a historic 18-day in three of them, marking
scientific mission aboard the India's entry into a new era of
International Space Station (ISS). semiconductors.
With this, the ‘Axiom-04’ mission
was successfully concluded. The n Twelve semiconductor units are
mission had been launched on under construction across the
June 25, 2025, aboard the SpaceX country, 24 deep-tech chip design
Dragon spacecraft. startups have been launched, and
over 70,000 youths have been
trained in chip design.
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