The maiden mission of Skyroot Aerospace, named ‘Prarambh’ (the beginning), will carry three customer payloads and is set for launch from ISRO’s launchpad at Sriharikota.
HYDERABAD: India’s first privately developed rocket — Vikram-S is all set for an epoch-making launch by Hyderabad-based spacetech start-up Skyroot Aerospace, a report in the Deccan chronicle says
The company is poised to create history has a launch window between November 12 and 16 from the India Space Research Organisation’s (Isro) Launchpad. The schedule will be confirmed based on the weather and other conditions.
Signifying a new dawn for private players in the space sector, the mission has been named ‘Prarambh,’ the beginning.
Skyroot Aerospace had signed a memorandum of understanding with Isro after the space sector was recently opened to facilitate private sector participation.
Skyroot Aerospace CEO and co-founder Pawan Kumar Chandana attributed their success in building and getting the Vikram-S rocket mission-ready in a short time to support from Isro and IN-SPACe.
“We are proud to announce our pathbreaking mission ‘Prarambh’ dedicated to the Indian private space sector, which has hugely benefited from the guidance and the reforms of the Indian government,”
He added that the name ‘Vikram’ given to Skyroot’s launch vehicles was a tribute to the founder of the Indian space programme and renowned scientist Dr Vikram Sarabhai.
COO and co-founder Naga Bharath Daka said “The Vikram-S rocket is a single-stage sub-orbital launch vehicle which would carry three customer payloads and help test and validate majority of the technologies in the Vikram series of space launch vehicles.”
The department of space has created the Indian National Space, Promotion & Authorisation Centre (INSPACe) to encourage, promote and hand-hold the private sector for their participation in Space Sector.
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