India’s Space Trajectory In 2025: When ISRO Stopped Needing The Spotlight – Analysis

India's space programme is ending 2025 without the kind of moment that usually defines year-end roundups. There is no dramatic first, no single image meant to carry symbolic weight. Instead, the year closes on something less visible but more telling: the quiet normalisation of complex commercial launches. Today's BlueBird-2 mission falls squarely into that category.

For the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), this has been a year in which competence mattered more than ambition.