Overview
- The Vikram‑1 launcher is fully stacked at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota and is scheduled to lift off Saturday, July 18 at 11:30 am IST pending weather and final technical clearances.
- Mission Aagaman is a developmental test flight carrying multiple technology demonstrations, including payloads from Grahaa Space, Cosmoserve, DCUBED and Skyroot’s SCOPE, plus micro‑art and an artwork called Cosmic Bloom.
- Vikram‑1 is a seven‑storey, four‑stage vehicle built with an all‑carbon composite structure that uses three solid motor stages and a restartable liquid upper stage powered by in‑house 3D‑printed engines.
- Skyroot says the primary goal is to gather flight data on propulsion, stage separation, guidance and telemetry as the first of three planned developmental flights to qualify the vehicle for commercial service.
- The launch follows 2020 reforms that opened India’s space sector to private firms and could shorten wait times for small‑satellite operators while supporting about 1,000 Skyroot staff and hundreds of suppliers working on India’s nascent commercial launch industry.