NEW DELHI—Russia and India have completed the preliminary design stage of their joint-venture multipurpose transport aircraft, a prototype of which is expected to be rolled out in 2017.
NEW DELHI—India is working to develop higher-capability communication satellites to meet the country’s growing requirements, a senior space scientist says. The country’s space agency is in the process of “developing various technologies and finding a suitable foreign industrial alliance to acquire the latest satellite platforms and payload technologies to upgrade its current satellite platforms,” Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) Chairman K. Radhakrishnan says.