Thursday, 5 March, 2026
India Successfully Launches its First Privately Made Rocket
By Basit Ansari
<p>Skyroot Aerospace, a Hyderabad-based startup, successfully launched India's first privately developed rocket, Vikram-S, from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh. The first demonstrator, which carried three non-deployable payloads to a maximum altitude of 89.5 kilometres above Earth, was launched at 11:30am and completed its targeted trajectory by splashing down into the Bay of Bengal more than seven minutes later.</p>
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