Vikram-S, named after the founder of the country's space program, Dr Vikram Sarabhai, blasted off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota at 1130 hrs. The rocket is a single stage suborbital space launch vehicle of Skyroot Aerospace.
The mission titled 'Prarambh' (beginning) carried two domestic payloads built by Space Kidz India and N-Space Tech India and one foreign payload from Bazoomq of Armenia. The successful launch of the mission created history as this was the first privately-built rocket to soar into the Indian skies after the Union Government opened up the space sector for private players in 2018.
Skyroot Aerospace, the Hyderabad based start-up founded in 2018 by former ISRO scientists Kumar Chandana and Naga Bharath Daka, built the rocket, Vikram-S, in two years using advanced technologies like carbon composite structures and 3D-printed components.
The rocket, which boasts of cutting-edge avionics and all-carbon fibre core structure, was powered by solid-fuelled propulsion and weighed 545 kg. It's 6 metres long and 0.375 metres in diameter.
Pitching Vikram series as the "quickest and most affordable" way to reach space, the start-up said Friday's launch will help test and validate majority of the technologies in the Vikram series of orbital class space launch vehicles including many sub-systems and technologies that will be tested across pre-lift-off and post-lift-off phases of the launch.
Courtesy. Deccan Herald
My take
We are passing through exciting times insofar as space research is concerned!
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