ISRO set to launch India's first privately developed rocket 'Vikram-S' on Friday
Skyroot Aerospace's Vikram-S will soar to an altitude of 81 km after its launch from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota.
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Skyroot Aerospace's Vikram-S will soar to an altitude of 81 km after its launch from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota.
The Vikram-S will be powered by the Kalam 80 propulsion system that will ignite the three-stage rocket to space.
ISRO rocket launch: Earlier, at the end of 24-hour countdown, the 43.5 metre tall rocket soared majestically in a prefixed time at 12:07 am on Sunday from the second launch pad at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre here.
In a historic maiden commercial flight, an Indian heavy-lift rocket GSLV MkIII - renamed for this mission as LVM3 M2, successfully orbited satellites of UK-based OneWeb.
The space agency’s heaviest rocket, LVM3-M2, placed the satellites into orbit 75 minutes after liftoff.