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NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 astronauts returned to Earth on 8 October 2026 after 237 days aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Their SpaceX Crew Dragon Freedom spacecraft splashed down in the Pacific Ocean off Los Angeles at 8:34 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time. The crew completed more than 3,792 Earth orbits and travelled over 100 million miles.
The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) granted a Type Certificate to Kothari Industrial Corporation Limited (KICL) for its KOAIR-10L Drone on 9 October 2026. The Chennai-based company announced the certificate to the Bombay Stock Exchange on the same date.
On 5 October 2026, Command Hospital (Eastern Command) in Kolkata administered India’s indigenous CAR-T cell therapy, NexCAR19, to a 39-year-old serving soldier with relapsed/refractory B-cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia (B-cell ALL). Command Hospitals across India are among the institutions authorised to administer this therapy.
Starlink has established 20 gateway sites in India, equipped with hundreds of antennas, as part of its ground infrastructure for satellite communications. At the India Mobile Congress 2026, SpaceX Vice President of Starlink Business Operations Lauren Dreyer said the company had developed India-specific security controls to keep Indian user data within the country. Starlink is awaiting final regulatory clearances before beginning commercial services.
IIT Ropar launched the digital learning platform AVNI – Grow with Nature on 6 October 2026 through its Centre of Excellence in AI for Digital Agriculture, ANNAM.AI. The app is designed for children to learn about plants, crops, food, and agriculture through surroundings, activities, and artificial intelligence tools.
India won four gold medals and one silver medal at the 19th International Olympiad on Astronomy and Astrophysics (IOAA) 2026. The competition was held in Hanoi, Vietnam, from 25 September to 5 October 2026, and all five members of the Indian team won medals.
Researchers at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru, developed a computational framework that maps 9,389 elementary chemical reactions involved in carbon dioxide (CO₂) conversion into fuels and chemicals. The study was published in Nature Communications on 6 October 2026 and focuses on CO₂ hydrogenation on a copper catalyst.
Astronomers have identified a candidate for a second-generation planet orbiting the white dwarf HS 0209+0832. The finding was published in Nature Astronomy on 5 October 2026 and involved researchers from the University of Warwick and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Francis Halzen, a Belgian particle physicist and professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, received the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics on 6 October 2026. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the prize for decisive contributions to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the discovery of high-energy neutrinos of astrophysical origin.
AM Intelligence (AMI), an AI infrastructure platform established by Greenko’s promoters, has placed two new firm orders for 20,000 NVIDIA Rubin graphics processing units for deployment in India and Malaysia. The latest order adds about 70 megawatts of compute capacity and takes AMI’s total committed frontier compute capacity to about 29,000 Rubin GPUs and close to 100 MW.
The Uranium Corporation of India Limited (UCIL) began its Diamond Jubilee Year celebrations at Jaduguda on 4 October 2026. UCIL was incorporated in 1967 and operates as a Public Sector Enterprise under the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE). The Jaduguda mine started operations in 1967 and was the first uranium mine in India.
Andhra Pradesh launched India’s first pilot housing project using 3D concrete printing technology on 4 October 2026. The project covers 177 houses in Burripalem and Obulnayudupalem villages in Tenali Mandal of Guntur district under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana-Gramin (PMAY-G) 2.0.