PM Modi Unveils Skyroot’s New Infinity Campus & Vikram-I Rocket 🚀| Amaravati Today

Video from the channel AT World News about Vikram-I, linked on its Above Ten Thousand entry. Duration: 31:23. Video type: Livestream.

Full ceremony in which Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurates, via videoconference, Skyroot Aerospace's Infinity Campus and unveils the Vikram-I, the first orbital rocket developed by a private company in India. The event, held in Hindi and English, includes remarks from the company's co-founders, Pawan Kumar Chandana and Naga Bharath Daka, an institutional video about the new plant, and the Prime Minister's closing speech.

The founders recall that Skyroot was born in 2018 thanks to the opening of India's space sector to private initiative, and that in 2022 it launched the Vikram-S, the country's first private rocket to reach space. They present the Infinity Campus as India's largest private rocket factory: around 200,000 square feet with clean rooms, automated fiber winding, CNC machining, and propulsion and avionics labs, with the capacity to manufacture and integrate one Vikram per month. According to the company, the Vikram-I is as tall as a seven-storey building, is built from carbon-fiber composite material, uses 3D-printed engines, and can place several satellites into Earth orbit. Its booster stage, the Kalam 1200, is described as the largest rocket stage privately developed in the country. The maiden flight is announced for early 2026. After pressing the inauguration button, the rocket is unveiled in the hangar.

In his speech, Modi frames the event within the reforms that opened the sector to private companies, the creation of the IN-SPACe regulator and the new space policy, putting the number of the country's space startups at over 300. He recalls the goal of creating five new space-sector unicorns and announces that the nuclear sector is also to be opened to private enterprise. Skyroot, for its part, commits to the national target of 50 launches a year by 2030 and states that, with the Vikram-I, India will join the only three countries where a private company can place satellites in orbit.