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The Spaceflight Success of Skyroot Aerospace

With a mission of opening Bharath Daka says, "In mid-
space to all, Skyroot Aerospace 2018, Pawan and I started this
is endeavouring to make endeavour to build private
spaceflight affordable, reliable launch vehicles in India with the
and regular. Having achieved help of the ecosystems that have
phenomenal milestones in the been built over several decades.
space sector, like successfully Today, at Skyroot, we are
completing full duration stage focused on building low-cost,
test, firing India’s first private affordable, on-demand, reliable,
cryogenic engine test, test-firing launch vehicles to enable
the first privately-made solid satellite launch services from
rocket stage and succeeding India to the world. It’s been
with upper stage fire test, Skyroot four and a half years since our
is creating ripples of progress in inception and through out our
the sector. journey, we have accomplished
The Prime Minister's recent several developmental
mention of their work and milestones concerning our
progress in his 'Mann ki Baat' launch vehicles. One of the most
address focusing on the launch crucial milestones which we have
of Vikram-S has brought to recently achieved is the launch
light how the privatization of of a rocket into space and back.
the space sector is leading to We launched our technology
greater success. demonstrator rocket called
Our team at Doordarshan Vikram-S, which essentially
interviewed the co-founders uses 80% of the technologies
of Skyroot Bharath Daka and made for our orbital launch
Pawan Kumar Chandana to vehicles like the solid propulsion
learn more about the start-up. technology, electronic systems

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