Hyderabad-based Skyroot Aerospace’s Vikram-1 reached orbit on Saturday, July 18, after lifting off from ISRO’s First Launch Pad at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota under Mission Aagaman, completing

In 2018, two engineers took a risk by leaving their cozy positions at India’s space agency to launch a rocket firm from the ground up. Private companies were essentially nonexistent