KTR said that he promised the startup's Co-Founders Pawan Chandana and Bharath Daka of complete support for establishing the facility to design, manufacture, and test rockets in Telangana.

The lift-off of the Vikram Suborbital rocket took place at 11:30 am from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota.

Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], February 15 (ANI/NewsVoir): Hyderabad-based space startup "Navars Edutech" envisages launching 100 student-developed satellites constellation with Skyroot Aerospace as a launch partner in the next five years.

Bengaluru Sept 19 PTI The Department of Space DoS plans to realise entirely-built rockets -- GSLV-Mk III and SSLV -- from Indian industry partners in addition to PSLV according to a top official of its commercial arm NSIL NSIL NewSpace India Limited has received three bids -- HAL-LT BEL-Adani-BEML and BHEL in response to the request for proposal RFP floated by it for end-to-end production of PSLV Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle We are now going through the techno-commercial evaluation in respect of the three bids NSIL Chairman and Managing Director Radhakrishnan D told PTI here He said the process will be completed within the next two months with one of the bidders bagging the contract The selected bidder will be responsible for realisation of five numbers of PSLV Immediately after selection of the bidder to produce the entire PSLV NSIL will release Expression of Interest EOI for end-to-end production of another operational rocket -- GSLV-Mk III Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle -- in a similar fashion Radhakrishnan said I am targeting before the end of this year to release EOI for GSLV-Mk III he said NSIL also has plans to realise SSLV Small Satellite Launch Vehicle being developed by the Indian Space Research Organisation ISRO with the first development flight expected by this year-end through Indian industry partners We are waiting for the first mission of SSLV to happen successfully Radhakrishnan said This SSLV will be an ideal candidate for industry production SSLV is a three-stage all solid vehicle and has a capability to launch up to 500 kg satellite mass into 500 km low earth orbit LEO and 300 kg to Sun Synchronous Orbit SSO The new generation compact rocket has been designed to meet launch on demand requirements in a cost-effective manner for small satellites in a dedicated and rideshare mode according to officials of Bengaluru-headquartered ISRO Industrialisation of space activities is gaining momentum in India About 40 space startups and industries are in consultation with ISRO for support related to various domains of space activity such as development of satellites launch vehicles develop applications and provide space-based services Indias Foreign Direct Investment policy in the space sector is also getting revised which the ISRO Chairman and DoS Secretary K Sivan believe will open up huge avenues for foreign companies to invest in the country Earlier this month the DoS entered into a Framework MoU with two spacetech startups -- Skyroot Aerospace and Agnikul Cosmos -- for access to ISRO facilities and expertise towards the development and testing of subsystemssystems of space launch vehicles PTI RS APR APR