Skyroot to launch India’s first privately developed orbital rocket tomorrow: 10 things to know

Skyroot Aerospace created history on Saturday after it successfully placed a payload into orbit using a launch vehicle designed and developed in-house, becoming the first private company from India to do so. The Hyderabad-based startup launched Vikram-1, an orbital-class rocket, which carried the payload. The launch comes nearly four years after Skyroot’s Vikram-S became the first privately built rocket to reach space from Indian soil.The