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Skyroot Aerospace is a Hyderabad-based private spaceflight company founded in 2018 by former ISRO engineers Pawan Kumar Chandana and Naga Bharath Daka. In 2022 its Vikram-S suborbital rocket became the first privately built Indian vehicle to reach space.
Skyroot's flagship orbital launcher, the four-stage Vikram-1, is a seven-story carbon-composite small-satellite rocket capable of delivering roughly 350 kg to low Earth orbit. The company is targeting on-demand launch services for the global smallsat market.