Forty-six years after SLV-3 marked India's first successful satellite launch, Skyroot Aerospace's Vikram-1 successfully lifted off and from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota on Saturday and further entered the space, becoming the country's first privately developed orbital-class rocket to take flight from Indian soil and marking the start of India's maiden private orbital launch attempt.
The launch, dubbed Mission Aagaman, signals a major milestone for India's growing private space sector and could make Skyroot the first Indian private company to place payloads into orbit.
