Technology & Science
ISRO’s LVM3 Launches 6.1-Ton US BlueBird-2 Satellite, Sealing 2025 India-US Space Breakthrough
On 24 December 2025, India’s LVM3-M6 rocket lofted AST SpaceMobile’s 6,100 kg BlueBird-6 (Block-2) into low-Earth orbit—the heaviest foreign payload ever launched from India—prompting envoy Vinay Kwatra to tout the feat as the capstone of a year of accelerated India-US space cooperation and to signal momentum toward a long-sought balanced bilateral trade deal.