Overview
- India’s ambassador Vinay Mohan Kwatra said New Delhi is in constant talks with the U.S. Trade Representative to conclude a mutually beneficial, balanced trade arrangement as soon as possible.
- ISRO’s LVM3-M6 placed AST SpaceMobile’s BlueBird-6 (Block-2) into its intended orbit, marking the heaviest commercial satellite ever launched from Indian soil.
- Kwatra called the BlueBird-6 mission a very important day for the partnership and pointed to sustained progress in 2025 across civil and commercial space cooperation.
- Earlier 2025 milestones cited by officials include the Axiom-4 flight carrying Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla to the ISS and the NASA–ISRO NISAR Earth-observation mission becoming operational.
- India will host the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi on February 19–20, with substantial U.S. participation expected at the first AI summit held in the Global South.