Make in India

DRDO’s Next Pinaka Leap: 370-mm Rocket Motor Points to Future 300-km-Class Guided Rocket

The clearest evidence of the new configuration comes from DRDO’s Research Centre Imarat in Hyderabad, which has sought the fabrication of five sets of 370-mm ELRGR rocket-motor systems. The requirement covers specialised manufacturing processes including flow forming, precision machining, welding of 11-10 precipitation-hardening steel and proof-pressure testing. The motor sets are to be supplied to RCI within a six-month delivery window.

BDL Begins Localised Production of 5th-Generation Spike LR2 Missile in India

The latest milestone follows several years of cooperation between BDL and Rafael. At Aero India 2025, the companies advanced plans for a Technical Collaboration Agreement covering Indian manufacture of the Spike LR2. Rafael said at the time that the arrangement was intended to transfer manufacturing capabilities and critical technologies to BDL while meeting India’s indigenous-content requirements under the Make in India initiative.

India’s Serendipity Space Tests ‘Alchemy’ as It Builds Satellites to Manufacture Medicines in Orbit

Bhubaneswar-based startup Serendipity Space is developing reusable satellites designed to carry pharmaceutical compounds into Low Earth Orbit, process them under microgravity conditions and return the resulting material safely to Earth. At the centre of the programme is Alchemy, an autonomous pharmaceutical-processing module intended to function as a miniature factory in space.