Neil Mills has stepped down from his post as CEO of SpiceJet, India’s only publicly listed budget carrier, sparking speculation that the airline’s owners are looking at bringing in a foreign airline as a strategic investor. Some Indian airlines are seeking foreign investors since the government allowed foreign airlines to invest in local carriers in September of last year. Mills was the fourth CEO since the SpiceJet’s launch in 2005.

NEW DELHI — The Indian air force (IAF) has taken delivery of its second C-17 military transport aircraft, a month after the first arrived in India. Boeing is on schedule to deliver three more C-17s this year and five in 2014, giving India 10 aircraft and making it the largest C-17 operator outside the U.S. IAF chief Air Chief Marshal N.A.K. Browne took delivery of the second C-17 from Boeing in Long Beach, Calif., on June 22.

India’s Insat-3D weather satellite is getting ready for liftoff on July 25 from Europe’s spaceport near Kourou in French Guiana. “The satellite has been installed on [an] Ariane 5 launcher for Arianespace’s heavy-lift mission and the final payload integration is under way,” a scientist at the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) says. The Indian spacecraft is integrated in the lower payload position for Ariane 5’s dual-launch mission, along with Europe’s Alphasat telecommunications platform.