As India moves into the new year, it plans a shift toward launching bigger space missions ranging from larger satellites aboard heavy-lift launchers to improved Earth observation spacecraft.

For the first time, the Indian navy has test-fired the Barak 8 long range surface to air missile (LRSAM) from an Indian warship.

The winged Reusable Launch Vehicle Technology Demonstrator (RLV-TD) was scheduled to be tested in the first week of February.