Skyroot India based first private company to test upper-stage rocket engine
private launch startup Skyroot is leaping ahead on its way to becoming the first private space launch vehicle maker in the country. Skyroot was founded two years ago. The startup has raised $4.3 million to date. Skyroot is currently focused on developing its very first launch vehicle, the “Vikram-I,” and its first launch will sometime around December 2021. This successful test fire of the upper-stage engine, which is nicknamed “Raman” after Indian physicist and Nobel prize winner C.V. Raman.
Raman represents full qualification of its 3D-printed propellant injector, which the company says reduces the mass of the engine by 50%, and drops the components required in its construction, as well as its lead time for manufacturing, by 80%.
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