Space sector startup Skyroot unveils indigenously built Vikram-1 rocket
Space sector start-up Skyroot Aerospace unveiled its indigenously built Vikram-1 rocket. Space, Science and Technology Minister Jitendra Singh, after unveiling the rocket, also inaugurated 'The MAX-Q Campus', the new headquarters of the start-up at the GMR Aerospace and Industrial Park at Mamidipally in Hyderabad.
Vikram-1 is expected to deliver satellites to low-earth orbit early next year. Singh toured the Skyroot headquarters, spread across 60,000 sq ft and billed as the country's largest private rocket development facility under one roof. Vikram-1 is a multi-stage launch vehicle with a capacity to place around 300 kg of payloads in Low Earth Orbit.
It is an all carbon fibre bodied rocket that can place multiple satellites into orbit and features 3D-printed liquid engines. Planned to be launched in early 2024, Vikram-I will be Skyroot's second rocket after the successful launch of the Vikram-S rocket on November 18 last year.
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