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Prior to the launch of Vikram-1, which is planned for next year, Vikram-S is a single stage fuel rocket designed to test the majority of Skyroot Aerospace’s project’s systems and procedures.
At 11:30 am, the Indian startup company Skyroot Aerospace sent its first rocket into orbit. The first rocket in the Vikram series, the Vikram-S, launched from the Sriharikota launchpad of the ISRO (Indian Space Research Organization). This is India’s first privately funded rocket launch.
Prior to the launch of Vikram-1, which is planned for next year, Vikram-S is a single stage fuel rocket designed to test the majority of Skyroot Aerospace’s project’s systems and procedures. Today’s launch is also a suborbital one, which means the spacecraft will travel into space and not maintain an orbit around the Earth for more than five minutes. Check out the launch live stream down below.
