🇮🇳BREAKING: Skyroot Aerospace attempted India's first privately developed orbital launch today with Vikram-1.


This is different from Skyroot's 2022 Vikram-S flight, that one was suborbital, a five-minute test that never reached orbit. Vikram-1 is the real thing, a four-stage, seven-story rocket built to carry about 770 pounds to orbit.
Founded in 2018 by two former ISRO engineers, Skyroot built this on the back of roughly 1,000 employees, 400 suppliers, and nearly eight years of work. The rocket carries Skyroot's own SCOPE satellite plus two symbolic payloads, an 18-karat gold model rocket and a lab-grown diamond piece called Cosmic Bloom.
Skyroot's CEO put the bet plainly: the small-satellite launch market is supply-constrained while demand keeps climbing. If this holds, India gets a genuine private orbital launch capability, not a government-run one, entering a market it's aiming to grab a real share of.
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