Skyroot Aerospace launched Vikram-S, India's first privately built space rocket in November 2022. Founders Pawan Kumar Chandana and Naga Bharath Daka now hold the aspiration of one launch a day
Pawan Kumar Chandana and Naga Bharath Daka made a bit of Indian spacefaring history with the launch of Vikram-S, the first privately built space rocket from the country, in November.
The two former Isro engineers started Skyroot Aerospace in 2018, anticipating that the market for low-Earth orbit satellites will explode, requiring a large number of launches, worldwide.
(This story appears in the 24 February, 2023 issue of Forbes India. To visit our Archives, click here.)