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Skyroot’s Vikram‑1 Is Stacked at Sriharikota as Launch Window Opens

The company says Mission Aagaman will collect flight data to validate propulsion, guidance and stage separation with success leading to commercial launches after one or two demonstration flights.

Naga Bharath Daka and Pawan Kumar Chandana, founders of Skyroot Aerospace, pose in front of Vikram-I, India's first private commercial rocket, at the campus of Skyroot Aerospace during the inauguration ceremony of Infinity Campus, India's largest private rocket factory, in Hyderabad, India, November 27, 2025. REUTERS/Priyanshu Singh/File Photo
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Overview

  • Skyroot announced Thursday that its Vikram‑1 rocket is fully integrated and stacked at the First Launch Pad in Sriharikota and that a launch window runs from July 12 to August 4, 2026.
  • Mission Aagaman is a partially commercial technology demonstration carrying domestic and international payloads whose primary goal is to gather in‑flight performance data on propulsion, guidance, control and stage separation.
  • Vikram‑1 is a seven‑storey, multi‑stage vehicle built largely from carbon composite materials with in‑house propulsion and is designed to place up to 350 kg into low Earth orbit at about 450 km and 60° inclination.
  • Skyroot became a space‑tech unicorn after raising about $60 million and says it will begin routine commercial launches only after one or two successful demonstration flights while it continues work on larger follow‑on vehicles such as Vikram‑2.
  • Final lift‑off timing is still subject to ground tests, range and safety clearances from authorities, weather and final assembly checks so the exact launch date will be set only after those conditions are met.