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 created history as Skyroot Aerospace successfully launched Vikram-1, the country's first privately developed orbital rocket, from Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota. The landmark mission marks a major milestone for India's rapidly growing private space sector. Developed by former ISRO scientists, Vikram-1 successfully progressed through multiple flight stages, crossed the 100 km Kármán Line, ignited all stages as planned, and moved toward deploying its payloads into orbit. The mission demonstrates India's expanding capabilities in commercial space launches and opens new opportunities for startups, universities, and global satellite customers.

Vikram-1 launch success: India’s first private rocket reaches space | skyroot creates history

India has achieved a historic milestone in space exploration as Skyroot Aerospace successfully launched Vikram-1, the country's first privately developed orbital rocket from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota. The successful liftoff marks a major breakthrough for India's rapidly growing private space industry following the government's space sector reforms. The four-stage Vikram-1 rocket completed key mission objectives, including successful ignition, stage separation, and payload fairing separation, while carrying multiple payloads toward orbit. The mission places India among leading nations encouraging private participation in space launches and commercial space exploration.

Skyroot Aerospace launches Vikram-1, India’s first private orbital rocket, successfully lifts off

 This test has provided sufficient confidence towards the demonstration of steady state performance of engine powerhead at 200 tonne (100%) thrust level and also achieved a major milestone in the indigenous development of Semicryogenic engine.

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India’s Chandrayaan-3 mission has received one of the world’s top honours in space exploration, nearly three years after its historic landing near the Moon’s south pole put ISRO firmly at the centre of global lunar exploration. Scroll down.

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ISRO is in talks with Roscosmos to procure powerful RD-191 rocket engine to boost LVM3 payload capacity, reducing reliance on foreign launches and advancing India’s future space missions.

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At present, ISRO's Multi-Object Tracking Radar (MOTR) at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota tracks space objects, including Indian rocket bodies and satellites. 

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With the International Space Station set to be decommissioned by decade’s end, experts at the Russian Space Forum discussed post-ISS cooperation, as China remains the only operator of another crewed space station.

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India has planned to place an uncrewed space station about 400-600 km above the Earth. Gradually, ISRO hopes to build on the uncrewed station and make a five-module station capable of housing astronauts.

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ISRO, NSIL, and IN-SPACE have signed an MoU with Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) to transfer the technology for the SSLV. The agreement will allow HAL to completely build, market, and launch the rocket, a key step in India's plan to privatise its space sector.

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India is gearing up to start the construction of a rocket launchpad at the proposed launchpad site in Kulasekarapattinam, Tamil Nadu.

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During the test, the capsule splashed down safely, after which the Indian Navy’s vessels that were pre-positioned in the region deployed their smaller boats to approach the capsule, inspected it, and connected the capsule to a shipborne crane.

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The launch of AST SpaceMobile’s BlueBird Block-2 satellite by India’s ISRO is delayed to early 2026, a year later than planned. The US firm aims to expand mobile internet via satellites.

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After the NISAR mission, ISRO is set to launch a 6,500 kg US-based communication satellite, the Block-2 BlueBird (BlueBird 2), in the next couple of months. This is a next-generation satellite that is built to revolutionise global connectivity.

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The Indian Space agency ISRO is looking to operationalize its largest-yet rocket launchpad by the year 2029. Expected to be built at a cost of Rs 3985crore (approx $460mn), the third launchpad(TLP) will be an addition to the existing two launchpads 

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ISRO supports development of Indias deep ocean capsule 

ISRO supports development of India's deep ocean capsule

Andhra Pradesh, home to India's lone operational spaceport, Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC-SHAR), has revealed its State Space Policy for 2025-2030. 

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Ever since the Soviet Union successfully launched an artificial satellite, Sputnik 1, into space on 4 October 1957, it has fascinated the other most powerful nations on Earth too. It has promoted financing expensive missions costing billions of dollars to unearth life beyond earth.

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Thanking ISRO, NASA, Axiom Space, Indian researchers and students, he added, “Going back, I carry a lot of memories and learnings.” Highlighting the team spirit on board, he remarked, “All of us come from different parts of the world for one mission – it’s incredible.”

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The evening of food and conversation offered a glimpse into the quieter moments of life aboard the ISS, where astronauts from around the world come together not only for science, but to celebrate culture and companionship far from Earth.

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Emphasising that even school students would question the rationale behind the government spending taxpayers’ money on such expensive, high-profile missions, the ISRO chief added that such spending can be justified only with focussed science experiments being carried out.

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From Earth observation, lunar landers, to Mars missions, the world's leading space research agencies, NASA, ISRO, ESA, and private companies are gearing up for an ambitious and action-packed space exploration. Here are the top 10 space projects to expect in 2025 and beyond.

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