India’s space unicorn aces first private orbital rocket launch

NEW DELHI: India’s space startup Skyroot Aerospace completed its first orbital flight on Saturday, making India the third country in the world with a private company capable of such a feat. The Vikram-1 rocket lifted off at 12.05 p.m. from the Satish Dhawan Space Center in Sriharikota, an island off the Bay of Bengal. The four-stage, seven-story rocket was named after the late Vikram Sarabhai, who pioneered the Indian space program. Designed to carry payloads of up to 350 kg into low-Earth orbit, it managed to deploy its payloads about 16 minutes later. “Hello space, we have arrived.

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