
Skyroot Aerospace
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Opening Space for All. Successfully launched India’s first privately developed rocket to orbit.
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Exactly 24 hours ago, a rocket lifted off. Today, a billion+ dreams have taken flight. 🇮🇳🚀 Reliving the launch—from lift-off to satellite separation. Reaching orbit on the very first attempt of a new launch vehicle is an incredibly rare feat globally. The world now has a new launch vehicle. From India, for the world. 🚀 #Vikram1 #MissionAagaman
Skyroot Aerospace192,034 просмотров • 3 дней назад

Sunrise from orbit. 🌅 This was Vikram-1’s view as the Sun rose behind its Orbital Adjustment Module — moments after India’s first privately developed rocket delivered its payloads to their target orbit on its maiden flight. The dawn of a new space era. Mission Aagaman is a grand success. 🚀🇮🇳 #Vikram1 #MissionAagaman #OpeningSpaceForAll
Skyroot Aerospace58,331 просмотров • 1 день назад

One of the most meaningful outcomes of Mission Aagaman was the trust our customers and partners placed in us. Vikram-1’s maiden flight successfully deployed Grahaa Space’s SOLARAS satellite and Skyroot’s own SCOPE technology-demonstration satellite, while carrying in-orbit experiments from Cosmoserve Space and DCUBED. The mission also carried Cosmos Diamonds’ Cosmic Bloom diamond, along with micro-artist Ajay Kumar’s extraordinary creations—a microscopic 18K gold rocket and intricate micro-sculptures honouring Dr. Vikram Sarabhai, Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam and Sir C.V. Raman. A tribute to India’s scientific legacy, carried into space alongside the mission. Here’s to many more missions. 🚀
Skyroot Aerospace57,917 просмотров • 2 дней назад

Among the payloads on Vikram-1 Test Flight-1 is something truly special—a handwritten postcard from Hon’ble Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi with the words, “Vande Mataram.” 🇮🇳🚀 It travels to space alongside handwritten messages from our team, investors, policymakers, and well-wishers across the globe, making Mission Aagaman a celebration carried by many hands and shared by millions. #Vikram1 #MissionAagaman #SkyrootAerospace #OpeningSpaceForAll
Skyroot Aerospace59,549 просмотров • 5 дней назад

Building for the world from India. 🇮🇳 India’s first privately developed orbital rocket stands on the launch pad at Sriharikota, ready for its maiden test flight. 🚀 This documentary takes you behind the scenes of Vikram-1—from bold ideas and relentless testing to the teams, technology, and reforms that made this moment possible. #Vikram1 #SkyrootAerospace
Skyroot Aerospace45,911 просмотров • 6 дней назад

Before Vikram-1 could leave for Sriharikota, every major system had to qualify on the ground. This episode goes inside that campaign — the Kalam-1200 static fire, stage separation, payload fairing jettison, full OAM qualification, and more. Test after test, Vikram-1 passed. #JourneyToOrbit #Vikram1
Skyroot Aerospace52,569 просмотров • 17 дней назад

Vikram-1 has been modeled, simulated, tested, and qualified. And some questions can only be answered in flight. This episiode follows the team to Sriharikota, where the launch campaign is close to completion and with each passing day, Vikram-1 moves one step closer to flight. #JourneyToOrbit #Vikram1 #SkyrootAerospace
Skyroot Aerospace23,841 просмотров • 11 дней назад

A rocket's structure has to be strong enough to survive launch and light enough to reach orbit. This episode is about how the team turned to carbon composites and cork to meet both demands, and what it took to master the manufacturing from the ground up. #JourneyToOrbit #Vikram1
Skyroot Aerospace32,748 просмотров • 1 месяц назад

#NationalScienceDay marks the discovery of the Raman Effect, encouraging young people across the country to continue pursuing their passions in STEM. Today feels like the right moment to share what we've been building to fuel further innovation at Skyroot.
Skyroot Aerospace84,662 просмотров • 4 месяцев назад

Vikram-1's Integrated Electrical Test Campaign — Phase 3 of pre-launch testing — is complete. This campaign brought everything together — the vehicle, ground software, and electrical interfaces — running as one system for the first time. Every on-board system had to initialize correctly. Every sensor, actuator, and control element had to respond exactly as commanded. Every team had to work together exactly as they would on launch day. And it did. 🫡 Next stop: Sriharikota.🚀 #Vikram1 #SkyrootAerospace
Skyroot Aerospace52,031 просмотров • 2 месяцев назад

Vikram-1 had to be big enough to carry the fuel to reach orbit, and smart enough to shed that weight along the way. Nearly as tall as a 7-storey building, getting something that size to orbit demands precision engineering at every stage of the climb, as much as it demands raw power. This episode is about how the team broke out of that loop and the systems that make it possible. #JourneyToOrbit #Vikram1
Skyroot Aerospace27,831 просмотров • 1 месяц назад

This episode is about the onboard intelligence that flies Vikram-1 to orbit: the GNC algorithms that follow a planned path and correct for deviation in real time, the avionics network of sensors and modules that act as the rocket's nervous system, and Ramanujan, the mission computer at the center of it all. #JourneyToOrbit #Vikram1
Skyroot Aerospace15,303 просмотров • 26 дней назад

When Vikram-1 reaches space, the payload fairing needs to split apart and fall away cleanly, protecting the satellite on the way up, then getting out of the way when its job is done. The final pre-flight separation test on flight hardware confirms the pneumatic separation system is a stable, proven design. Next stop: Sriharikota. 🚀 #Vikram1 #SkyrootAerospace #SpaceTech
Skyroot Aerospace42,433 просмотров • 3 месяцев назад

Clean separation, smooth execution!✨ Our team just nailed the stage separation test of Vikram-1. The ultra-low shock pneumatic separation system we developed in-house worked like a charm, smoothly separating Stage 2 from Stage 3 — in another boost to our journey to orbit! 🚀 #Vikram1 #JourneytoOrbit #SpaceTech #RocketScience #DeepTech
Skyroot Aerospace129,702 просмотров • 1 год назад

Lift-off for Infinity🚀 The Honourable Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has given wings to our dreams: Inaugurating our brand new Infinity Campus and unveiling our flight-ready Vikram-1 orbital launch vehicle. This moment brings both inspiration and responsibility as we build a future of infinite possibilities.✨ #IndiatoInfinity
Skyroot Aerospace75,759 просмотров • 7 месяцев назад

Hot engines, cool engineering! 🔥 Our engineers gave Raman-2 a vacuum nozzle and let it breathe fire for 200 seconds straight. But extended nozzles meant for vacuum don't perform the best on test stands on Earth. They experience flow separation. But the team used a clever hack: water injection to fill those separation zones, letting us test at full area ratio right here on Earth. They got data, and we got fiery footage. ✨
Skyroot Aerospace117,002 просмотров • 1 год назад

Once a solid rocket motor ignites, there is no off switch. It burns to completion. That is what makes solid propulsion one of the most reliable technologies in rocketry. This episode of Journey To Orbit goes inside the solid propulsion systems that power Vikram-1 through Earth's atmosphere. #JourneyToOrbit #Vikram1
Skyroot Aerospace13,504 просмотров • 1 месяц назад

















