The country’s private sector space start-up Skyroot Aerospace on Tuesday (October 24) introduced its self-made rocket Vikram-1. The company is preparing to launch it early next year. With this rocket, 300 kg payload can be sent into low earth orbit.

Science and Technology Minister Jitendra Singh inaugurated Skyroot’s new headquarters at Max-Q Campus in Hyderabad and GMR Aerospace and Industrial Park in Mamidipalli. Singh also visited the Skyroot headquarters spread over sixty thousand square feet. It is the country’s largest rocket development center in the private sector( source google)

Vikram-1 ready to launch satellite
Vikram-1 Satellite Launch Vehicle is an all-carbon-fibre-body rocket. It has a 3D printed liquid engine. This will be Skyroot’s second rocket. Earlier, the company had successfully launched Vikram-S rocket on 18 November 2022.

300 people can work simultaneously in MAX-Q headquarters
Skyroot’s new headquarters houses design, manufacturing and testing facilities to build space launch vehicles. 300 people can work together here.

Pawan Chandana, CEO of Skyroot Aerospace, said that our MAX-Q headquarters is open to everyone. Skyroot is not only an example of India’s super talent and scientific prowess, but it is also a message to all of us that the talent was not utilized for many years before the arrival of PM Modi. India’s space sector, which was closed for private participation for many decades, has been opened to the private sector by PM Modi.(source google)

COO Daka said – Unveiling of Vikram-1 is a proud moment
Bharat Daka, co-founder and COO (Chief Operating Officer), Skyroot, said that it is a proud moment to unveil the Vikram-1 Space Launch Vehicle on the same day as the inauguration of the company’s new headquarters. Our design capability and high-tech indigenous technology have been an unmatched part of the construction of Vikram-1.

Vikram-S was launched on 18 November
Skyroot Aerospace’s first rocket Vikram-S was launched on 18 November 2022 from the Satish Dhawan Space Center in Sriharikota. This single stage rocket was a kind of demonstration mission in which three payloads were carried along.

The rocket covered a distance of 89.5 km in a flight time of less than 5 minutes. Peak altitude achieved, then splashdown into the ocean. India’s nodal agency In-Space, which promotes commercial space exploration, had approved the launch of Vikram-S suborbital vehicle.

The name of this mission was Start. The company had then claimed that the Vikram series rockets would make satellite launching as easy as booking a cab. Not only this, Vikram series rockets will be the lowest cost rockets in the payload segment.( source google)

The Vikram is a family of small-lift launch vehicles developed by Skyroot Aerospace, an Indian startup aerospace company. The Vikram-S was India’s first privately built rocket. It was successfully launched on November 18, 2022 from the Sounding Rocket Complex in Sriharikota.  The Vikram-S was a sub-orbital rocket. 

The Vikram-1 is a multi-stage launch vehicle that can place around 300 kg payloads in Low Earth Orbit. It has an all-carbon-fibre body and 3D-printed liquid engines. Skyroot plans to launch the Vikram-1 in early 2024. 

Other Vikram rockets include: 

• Vikram II, which can place 595 kg to 500 km Low Inclination Orbit 
• 400 kg to 500 km SSPO

the Vikram-S rocket was successful.  The rocket reached an apogee of 89.5 km, which was higher than the targeted 80+ km.  The mission lasted 300 seconds.  The rocket splashed down in the Bay of Bengal. 

The Vikram-S mission was called “Prarambh”. It was the first time a private company in India reached space. The rocket carried payloads for Space Kidz, Bazoomq, and N-Space Tech. 

The Vikram-S launch marked the private sector’s entry into India’s space industry. The space industry had been dominated by ISRO for decades.

Skyroot Aerospace, a Hyderabad-based startup, developed the Vikram-S rocket. The company was founded in June 2018 by Pawan Kumar Chandana and Naga Bharath Daka. Skyroot is the largest funded private space startup in India, with 200 employees and ₹526 crore in capital. 

ISRO and IN-SPACe (Indian National Space Promotion and Authorisation Centre) assisted with the launch. ISRO provided expertise and facilities to test the systems and technological developments.(source google)

The Vikram-S rocket uses solid fuel-ammonium perchlorate, which isn’t completely green fuel. The Vikram-1 has three solid fuel-powered stages, each with a burn time of 80–100 seconds. The final stage is the Raman engine, which uses MMH and NTO liquid fuels. The Vikram II uses a cryogenic rocket engine that uses liquid natural gas (LNG) and liquid oxygen (LoX). The Vikram II’s propellants need to be stored and operated at temperatures below -150° Celsius(source google)

The Vikram-S rocket uses the Kalam-80 engine, which is named after former President A P J Abdul Kalam. The Kalam-80 is India’s first carbon-fiber-built solid fuel engine

The Vikram-1 uses the Raman engine, which uses hypergolic propellants. The Vikram-2 uses liquid natural gas (LNG), which is greener than traditional kerosene fuel(source google)’

The Vikram-S rocket was launched on November 18, 2022 at 11:30 AM IST.  The launch took place at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota.  The rocket was launched by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).  The mission was called “Prarambh”, which means “beginning”. 

The Vikram-S rocket was six meters tall and generated a vacuum thrust of seven tonnes. It reached a speed of Mach 5, which is five times the speed of sound. The rocket carried payloads for Space Kidz, Bazoomq, and N-Space Tech. It reached an apogee of 89.5 km, making Skyroot Aerospace the first Indian private company to reach space. (Source google)

The Vikram-S launch was a technology demonstration flight. It was intended to: 

• Test and validate the majority of technologies in the Vikram series of orbital class space launch vehicles. 
• Demonstrate flight proving of avionics systems in the Vikram series, such as telemetry, Global Positioning System, on-board camera, data acquisition, and power systems. 
• Showcase the capabilities of the company. 

The Vikram series of rockets are being developed to launch small satellites. These satellites will help support communication services such as broadband internet, GPS, IoT from space, and earth imaging(source google)

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