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The 40,000-square-foot facility includes 25,000 square feet of Class 10K and Class 1K cleanrooms and is designed to handle semiconductor validation, automated testing, reliability qualification and failure analysis after a chip has been manufactured. HCLTech formally announced the facility on September 8.
The facility, located in Bengaluru’s aerospace and defence manufacturing corridor, is the company’s first plant built specifically for aerospace applications. It was inaugurated on August 31 as Bevel Gears India marked 50 years since the establishment of its engineering business in 1976. Detailed information on the facility was released on September 8.
The company has inaugurated the Stage Testing & Inspection Facility (STIF) and the Pressurant Tank Realisation, Over-wrapping and Outfitting Facility (PROOF) at its Assembly and Testing Facility. The new infrastructure strengthens Agnikul’s ability to develop, test, recover and eventually refly launch vehicle stages as it works towards its next flight, Mission-02.
The patent covers the alignment and synchronisation of optical and microwave sensors so that both datasets can be collected over the same area during the same pass. GalaxEye says the technology has already been patented in India and that it is the first Indian startup to secure a US patent specifically for satellite imaging technology.
The two companies signed a Memorandum of Understanding on September 8 to evaluate how BULL’s Post-Mission Disposal technology could be integrated with Samtel’s satellite platforms and its Active Space Debris Removal Vehicle, or DRV, concept.
The company unveiled its OISL capability at Bengaluru Space Expo 2026 on September 8 and is targeting flight readiness in 2027. Astrogate describes the programme as India’s first indigenous development of an optical inter-satellite terminal.
The concept is aimed at Suppression of Enemy Air Defences, or SEAD, missions, where expendable drones can be used to complicate an adversary’s radar picture, draw attention away from manned aircraft and potentially force air-defence units to reveal their positions.
HAL provided the clearest official update on the programme during its investor interaction on May 15, 2026. Asked whether HTT-40 deliveries would begin in FY2026-27 or FY2027-28, company management replied that deliveries would start in FY2026-27.
Unlike mainland India, the archipelago does not operate as one interconnected grid. Individual islands and groups of islands depend on separate generating systems because they are separated by large stretches of sea. The Nicobar district administration notes that this geography prevents the existence of a single electricity grid serving the entire territory.
Peskov made the comments during a virtual interaction with Indian journalists on September 8, ahead of talks between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Russian President Vladimir Putin in New Delhi.
