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India’s Private Space Revolution: How Skyroot’s Vikram-1 Rocket Is Rewriting History

Business Today · August 17, 2026 · 3:15 · English · News

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Video from the channel Business Today about Vikram-I, linked on its Above Ten Thousand entry. Duration: 3:15. Language: English. Video type: News.

Business Today piece, aired on the occasion of Independence Day, about Skyroot Aerospace's Vikram-1, which reached orbit on its first orbital attempt, while SpaceX's Falcon 1 achieved it on its fourth, after three failures.

It recalls that until 2020 only ISRO could launch rockets from India. When Skyroot was founded in 2018, there was no policy, funding or trained personnel in the private sector, so the company had to develop engines, carbon fiber structures, avionics and software before launching from Sriharikota.

The piece stresses the difficulty of a first orbital flight, with speeds of nearly 28,000 km/h, and presents Skyroot as a new player alongside SpaceX and Rocket Lab.

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