Skyroot successfully becomes the first private Indian company to launch a payload into orbit on 1st attempt

In a historic first, on 18th July India’s first private orbital launch named Vikram-I, successfully lifted off from Sriharikota and has successfully placed multiple technology demonstration payloads into orbit. These payloads include two satellites named SCOPE & Grahaa which were injected to a Low Earth Orbit along with others that carry out various in-orbit experiments. This is a phenomenal achievement by Skyroot Aerospace Private Limited which was founded in 2018 by two ISRO scientists. Skyroot became the first private Indian company to successfully reach the space in first attempt making India the third country in world after USA and China to have rocket launch by private company. The really cool fact about this is that the average age of the company staff is 28. So much for the youth today not doing anything new… Skyroot Aerospace had earlier conducted a sub-orbital launch of a test rocket, Vikram-S from Sriharikota on November 18, 2022. Subsequently, Vikram-I was developed as a…