{"id":1022196,"date":"2026-07-20T08:00:04","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T02:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1022196"},"modified":"2026-07-20T08:14:54","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T02:44:54","slug":"spacetech-unicorn-skyroot-launches-vikram-1-marks-indias-first-private-orbital-rocket-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/20\/spacetech-unicorn-skyroot-launches-vikram-1-marks-indias-first-private-orbital-rocket-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"Spacetech unicorn Skyroot launches Vikram-1, marks India&#8217;s first private orbital rocket mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hyderabad-based unicorn Skyroot Aerospace on Saturday launched Vikram-1, becoming the first private Indian company to place payloads into orbit and marking a significant milestone for the country\u2019s commercial space sector. <\/p>\n<p>The mission, named Aagaman, lifted off from the First Launch Pad at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC-SHAR) in Sriharikota at 12:05 pm. The mission completed all four stages as planned. <\/p>\n<p>The success marks India\u2019s first privately developed orbital launch vehicle mission and a major leap towards building commercial, on-demand satellite launch services from the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hyderabad-based unicorn Skyroot Aerospace on Saturday launched Vikram-1, becoming the first private Indian company to place payloads into orbit and marking a significant milestone for the country\u2019s commercial space sector. The mission, named Aagaman, lifted off from the First Launch Pad at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC-SHAR) in Sriharikota at 12:05 pm. The mission completed all four stages as planned. The success marks India\u2019s first privately developed orbital launch vehicle mission and a major leap towards building commercial, on-demand satellite launch services from the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1022196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1022196"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1022218,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022196\/revisions\/1022218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1022196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1022196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1022196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}