8SEPTEMBER, 2025MAHINDRA TO BUILD AIRBUS H125 HELICOPTER FUSELAGE IN BENGALURUTI SEMICONDUCTORS BOOST ISRO'S NISAR EARTH-OBSERVATION MISSIONAs Airbus turns to establish a full-fledged aerospace system in India, Mahindra Aerostructures will now assemble the fuselage of the H125 helicopter to increase its important role in the global operations of the company. The contract, which is granted to Mahindra Aerostructures Pvt. Ltd., involves the principal fuselage of the H125, the highest selling single engine helicopter in Airbus. The fuselage will be manufactured at the Bengaluru plant, industrialization will start right now, and the first delivery is scheduled for 2027.This announcement comes after an earlier April contract in the same H130 fuselage, reflecting Airbus's increasing the sourcing to India, which is already at 1.4 billion yearly. The company is a fully owned subsidiary of Mahindra and Mahindra Ltd. that has become part of the growing global supply chain of Airbus.Anish Shah, Group CEO and Managing Director of Mahindra Group, said the agreement "strengthens our long-term partnership and reflects Mahindra and Airbus' role in building India's aerospace ecosystem."The wider plan of Airbus involves the establishment of final assembly lines in India of H125 helicopter and the C295 military aircraft. These combined efforts will result in a full aerospace ecosystem including design, manufacturing, assembly, maintenance and training.Jurgen Westermeier, President and Managing Director of Airbus in India and South Asia, added, "Our confidence in India as a critical hub for global aerospace manufacturing. We are not just building helicopters in India; we are building an entire ecosystem that will contribute to developing and maturing the rotorcraft market in India."The H125 is used worldwide to carry passengers, in law enforcement, in medical evacuation and rescue missions. Airbus also intends to position the Indian-made H125 to both defence and civil purposes such as emergency medical as well as disaster response. Texas Instruments (TI) semiconductors have been the foundations of core NASA-Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) NISAR satellite that is recently launched into the orbit.First visit to the earth from the moon, the mission is a special case in the whole galaxy of earth observation projects and marks the breathtaking climax of the collaboration of the last 10 years between TI and ISRO in order to optimize the stability and functionality of the electronic systems for space applications.NISAR will regularly observe the planet every 12 days, monitoring the necessary parameters of the surrounding environment and every living thing. These activities are led by the changes in the polar ice, the increases and decreases in the levels of the earth's waters, the shifting or sinking of the underground waters, and modern disasters such as earthquakes, tsunamis, and landslides.One of the significant contributions of TI to the success of the satellite was reflected in the progressive sideband radar SAR of NISAR. The company also provided ultra-precise analog-to-digital converters, accurate clocking technologies, and ultra-high-performance interface solutions to ensure efficient signal sampling, rapid data transfer, and easily accessible communication with the subsystem."TI's excellence in high performance analog and mixed-signal semiconductors gave us the ability to satisfy severe space-grade norms," said Nilesh Desai, Director, Space Applications Centre, ISRO.Elizabeth Jansen, Sales and Applications Director, TI India, remarked, "Our spacegrade mission, a benchmark in the past six decades of innovation, still keeps on transforming to respond to the needs of the next generations of space projects". TOP STORIES8SEPTEMBER, 2025
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