Skyroot Aerospace successfully launched Vikram-1, India's first privately built orbital rocket, on Saturday from ISRO's Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota. The rocket successfully carried technology demonstration payloads from Indian and foreign customers into low earth orbit, along with a handwritten postcard from Prime Minister Narendra Modi that reads "Vande Mataram," postcards from scientists, engineers, and astronauts, and a micro-art payload. The Hyderabad-based company has named the launch "Mission Aagaman." Behind the rocket is Pawan Kumar Chandana, a former ISRO scientist who once struggled so badly at maths that he barely scraped a passing score in school.
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