Cosmoserve Space opened its Base 1 facility in Hyderabad, an area of about 14,800 sq ft where space robots are designed, built and tested under space-like conditions and run from mission control. Union Minister Jitendra Singh joined the ceremony virtually as chief guest and said India is among the first countries pioneering space debris removal.
The site also houses rendezvous-and-capture and robotics labs, microgravity simulators and satellite clean rooms.
Sachin Tendulkar has taken a non-controlling stake in Recykal, the Indian waste management technology firm.
His investment extends the $23 million round Recykal closed in June. The company will use the money to strengthen its tech platform, expand its Deposit Return System for packaging waste, and grow internationally.
Recykal's goal is to change the habits of a billion people, and Tendulkar said he was drawn in by how technology tackled a daily problem.
SpaceX plans to invest more than $74 billion across two AI supercomputing campuses, one in Texas and one in Arizona.
The Texas facility at Starbase, estimated at over $24 billion, will sit on about 444 acres near Brownsville and generate its own power off the public grid. The project has already created over 3,000 construction jobs.
The roughly $50 billion Arizona campus in Cochise County could scale up to 6 gigawatts, though it still needs county approvals. The Starbase city commission will weigh a property tax break for the Texas project on December 9.
