India has achieved a historic milestone as Skyroot Aerospace's Vikram-1 successfully launched multiple payloads into low Earth orbit, becoming the country's first privately built rocket to reach space. The breakthrough places India among a select group of nations with private orbital launch capabilities, marking a major boost for the country's growing commercial space sector and its ambitions to become a global space powerhouse by 2030.


India's first private rocket vikram-1 reaches orbit | skyroot creates history in space race

India's first private rocket Vikram-1 reaches Orbit | Skyroot creates history in space race

India has privatised space launches and is aiming for a five-fold increase in its share of the global launch market, which some expect to be worth $47.3 billion by 2032. India currently accounts for about 2% of the space economy.

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