New Delhi, Dec. 31 -- : For the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), 2025 began with a 'space handshake' and ended with a thunderous roar from the ground.

From a delicate autonomous space docking experiment to the soaring launch of 'Bahubali', which placed the heaviest satellite ever lifted from Indian soil into Earth's orbit, 2025 marked a quantum leap for India's space programme.

These missions laid the groundwork for more ambitious goals, including the construction of the Bharatiya Antariksh Station (BAS), bringing lunar samples back to Earth, and sending humans to space from Indian soil.

On January 16, 2025, ISRO's SpaDeX mission achieved a crucial technological milestone, metaphorically described as a "handshake in space". Two...