Getting Vikram-1 to orbit: Inside Skyroot Aerospace's coming bid to make spaceflight histo

Getting Vikram-1 to orbit: Inside Skyroot Aerospace's coming bid to make spaceflight history. Backed by a $1.1 billion valuation, Skyroot Aerospace is betting that its Vikram-1 rocket can help transform India's commercial launch industry.

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Trechos de apoio da pauta: HYDERABAD, India — When Space.com visited Skyroot Aerospace's Max-Q campus here in February, the company's first orbital rocket, Vikram-1, was still coming together.Inside the company's 55,000-square-foot (5,110 square meters) rocket factory, engineers sat before computer screens, running critical simulations and systems checks on Vikram-1's Orbit Adjustment Module, the liquid-fueled upper stage that stands at the center of the room and will guide the rocket's final maneuvers in space. Unlike the rocket's three solid-fueled lower stages, the upper stage can restart its engine, allowing Vikram-1 to deploy multiple customer satellites into different orbits during a single mission.At the time, it was one of the last major components awaiting an overnight transport to the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, where the rocket's lower stages had already arrived for final integration.Aerial view of Skyroot Aerospace's Infinity Campus in Hyderabad, India, showing a life-size model of the company's Vikram-1 rocket outside.

• Ponto de atenção: getting.
• Ponto de atenção: vikram.
• Ponto de atenção: orbit.

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