How Vikram-1 Has Put Skyroot In Global Map | Mission Possible With Pawan Chandana

Video from the channel NDTV Profit about Vikram-I, linked on its Above Ten Thousand entry. Duration: 14:30. Language: English. Video type: News.

NDTV Profit interview with Pawan Kumar Chandana, CEO and co-founder of Skyroot Aerospace, on the day of Vikram-1's maiden flight in the Aagaman mission. Chandana highlights that India's first private orbital rocket reached orbit on its first test flight. With this, India becomes the third country, after the United States and China, with a private company capable of putting satellites into orbit.

When Skyroot was founded, in 2018, there was no regulatory backing for private launches. The space policy reform and the creation of IN-SPACe, the agency that authorizes these activities and that approved this flight, opened up the sector. The launch used Sriharikota's first launch pad, the one used by the PSLV, and a network of more than 400 Indian suppliers. The Government aims for the country to go from 2% to close to 10% of the global space market and reach 44 billion dollars by 2033.

Skyroot now moves on to commercial flights. The second is planned for that same year, with the goal of reaching one launch a month the following year, a pace its factory can already sustain. The company is preparing Vikram-2, with more than one tonne of payload, three times that of Vikram-1, and a large reusable vehicle. More than 70% of its market is international, and the average age of its team is 28.