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Hyderabad startup Skyroot Aerospace successfully placed payloads into low Earth orbit on 18 July, making India only the third country where a private company has achieved orbital launch capability. The mission marks a turning point for India's rapidly expanding commercial space sector.
Shanghai Xingshu Tiansuan Space Technology has begun deploying what it says will become China's first commercial space-based computing network, ultimately comprising 1,000 satellites capable of processing AI workloads directly in orbit.
A robotic spacecraft built by Arizona startup Katalyst Space Technologies lifted off from the Marshall Islands on 3 July, beginning a months-long mission to haul NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory back to a stable orbit before atmospheric drag destroys it.