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Launch infrastructure is every bit as complicated as the rockets themselves, and is designed to operate in some of the most extreme conditions on Earth. Learn more about what it takes to launch the most powerful rocket on the planet in this clip from the second episode of our ongoing documentary, Starship → spacex.com/content/starsh…

Deployment of 20 @Starlink V3 satellites complete. Today's test will provide critical data as we prepare to expand our Starlink constellation

Starship has successfully ignited one of its Raptor engines while in space, testing a maneuver that will be needed on future orbital missions

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Everyone is posting the exact same launch photo today, so I'll talk about what’s actually cool about Vikram-1 that geeks me out. ​First, the entire rocket is carbon composite, even the motor casings. Most launch vehicles still rely on aluminum and steel. Carbon fiber is incredibly light and strong, but it’s a total nightmare to engineer, which is why almost nobody builds a fully composite rocket. Skyroot nailed it on their very first try. ​Second, the upper stage engine is entirely 3D printed; it completely changes the game for production. Instead of waiting months for hundreds of machined parts, they can print a finished engine in days at half the weight. That is the reason a monthly launch cadence is even on the table. ​Plus, that upper stage can restart mid-flight. That means a single launch can drop different satellites into totally different orbits, which is exactly what small-sat companies pay a premium for. ​But the biggest deal is the strategic angle. Because it uses solid fuel, you can keep the rocket ready to go and launch on short notice without needing a massive launchpad. Right now, that’s just a great commercial selling point. In a few years, it becomes a massive national asset - the ability to replace a satellite in days if you need to. ​This is a huge moment for Indian engineering. Massive congrats to Pawan, Bharath, and the entire Skyroot team.

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3 months ago

A historic new frontier for India’s space journey! At 11:30 AM today, Skyroot Aerospace will undertake the maiden orbital launch of Vikram-1, India’s first privately developed launch vehicle. This four-stage rocket is designed to provide rapid and on-demand launch services.

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What Skyroot pulled off this morning is genuinely stunning. Most people think a rocket's job is to go up. It is not. Going up is the easy part. The hard part is going sideways fast enough that you never come down. Let me explain this one idea in simple words. So orbit is not a height. It is a speed. Throw a ball. It falls. Throw it harder, it lands further away. Now imagine throwing it so hard that as it falls, the Earth curves away underneath it at exactly the same rate. It keeps falling forever and never hits the ground. That is orbit. So a satellite is not floating up there. It is falling around the planet, endlessly, because it is moving sideways at about 28,000 kmph. That is roughly 25 times the speed of a passenger jet. So a rocket does two jobs. It climbs out of the thick air near the ground, then it tips over and spends most of its fuel building sideways speed. Almost all of the energy goes into that second part. Now let's understand what Vikram-1 has achieved. It lifted off from Sriharikota at 12:05 pm today. The launch got held for 35 minutes at the T minus 5 minute mark because of a navigation issue. They fixed it and went. Fifteen to sixteen minutes later, the payloads were in a 450 km orbit. Fifteen minutes from a launch pad in Andhra to a stable orbit around Earth. :) The rocket is 24 metres tall, about a seven storey building. It is built from carbon composite instead of steel, which makes it far lighter, since weight is everything in this game. Every kilo of structure you save is a kilo of satellite you can carry. Now, Vikram-1 has four sections stacked on top of each other. Three solid fuel stages named after Dr Kalam. Kalam-1200 at the bottom, then Kalam-250, then Kalam-100. On top sits a small liquid engine called the Orbital Adjustment Module. As in most rockets, once the bottom stage has burned all its fuel, that huge empty tube is just a heavy metal shell you are dragging along. So the rocket throws it away mid flight. Lighter rocket, same engine push, faster acceleration. Then the next stage lights up. Think of a runner carrying three water bottles. He drinks the first one and throws it away instead of carrying an empty bottle for the rest of the race. Today all three stages fired and separated cleanly. First stage pushed it through the thick lower atmosphere. Second stage took over higher up. Third stage, the smallest, pushed it further. Then came the clever bit. The top module runs on liquid fuel, and its engine is 3D printed. Liquid engines can be switched off and started again. Solid fuel cannot. Once you light a solid motor, it burns till it is done, like a firecracker. You cannot stop it or restart it. So the liquid module is the precision tool. It fired for about six minutes, adjusted the path, and placed the satellites exactly where they needed to go. That start, stop, restart ability is what turns a rocket from a big firework into a delivery vehicle. But why this is a massive deal? Rockets have been doing this for years. See, in 2022, Skyroot flew Vikram-S. That was suborbital. It went up and came back down. Impressive, but going up is a fraction of the energy. Reaching orbit needs roughly 30 times more energy than just touching space. Today they crossed that line. India is now the third country in the world where a private company has put something into orbit. Only America and China had that before. Skyroot is a Hyderabad startup. Founded by Pawan Kumar Chandana and Naga Bharath Daka, both ex ISRO engineers who quit to build this. They raised $60 million in May. They have been test firing motors in Nagpur since 2020, one stage at a time, for six years. So, six years of quiet, unglamorous testing for fifteen minutes of flight. And they did it because ISRO opened up Sriharikota to a private company. IN-SPACe cleared the way. A government space agency handing its national launch pad to a startup is not a small cultural shift. Ten years ago that was unthinkable. The payload list is lovely too. Two cubesats, one from Skyroot and one from another Indian startup, Grahaa Space. A lab grown diamond from a Bengaluru company. A handwritten postcard from Modi Ji reading Vande Mataram, along with handwritten notes from the team and their families. Somebody's handwriting is circling the Earth right now at 28,000 kmph. :) Now, yes this was a test flight. They have said more test flights come before commercial launches, with up to two more Vikram-1 flights planned this year. First success is the hardest, but the real business is doing this again and again, cheaply and reliably. Still. A private Indian company built a rocket from scratch and reached orbit on the first try. Learn the name. Skyroot. :)

Skyroot Aerospace @SkyrootA

3 months ago

ORBIT ACHIEVED. 🚀 Vikram-1 Test Flight-1 has reached orbit. India's first privately developed orbital rocket has completed its final burn and injected its payloads into a ~450 km orbit, making India the third country in the world with private orbital launch capability.

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Starship V3 landing burn over the Indian Ocean

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Starship V3 takes flight for the first time → spacex.com/launches/stars…

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“The enemy is 50 yards from us. We are heavily outnumbered, but I will not withdraw one inch but fight to the last man last round.” – Major Somnath Sharma Major Somnath Sharma's valiant defence at Badgam. The key battles of Shalateng and Naushera. The prompt arrival of Indian forces in Srinagar. Mr. Ajay Singh provides a detailed account of the 1947 - 48 Indo-Pak War. He describes how it had influenced the destiny of Jammu & Kashmir as well as the ongoing dispute between India and Pakistan over the region. #Kashmir #IndiaPakistanWar #IndianArmy #MajorSomnathSharma #ParamVirChakra #Shalateng #Naushera #JammuAndKashmir #India #Pakistan vifindia.org/article/2025/d…

Starship and Super Heavy V3 moved to the pad at Starbase for final testing and preparations for launch

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Starship Flight 12 goals: • Debut next-generation Starship and Super Heavy vehicles • First launch from Starbase’s newly redesigned launch pad • Demonstrate upgraded Raptor engines in flight • Deploy 20 Starlink simulators and 2 modified Starlink satellites • Test in-space Raptor relight • Evaluate heat shield performance and tile damage scenarios during reentry • Perform experimental reentry and maneuvering tests • Offshore splashdown attempt for the redesigned Super Heavy booster

Starship’s twelfth flight test will debut the next generation Starship and Super Heavy vehicles, powered by the next evolution of the Raptor engine and launching from a newly designed pad at Starbase. The launch is targeted as early as Tuesday, May 19 → spacex.com/launches/stars…

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Alert Hyderabad 🚨 Be careful while hiring Nepali maids or domestic workers, warns CP V. C. Sajjanar after the shocking murder of a retired IPS Andhra DG Vinay Ranjan Ray’s wife Tanuja Ranjan in Jubilee Hills. Nepali maid had been working in the house for over a year. She allegedly waited for the right moment, coordinated with a Nepali gang, and attacked when the woman at 2am was alone while husband was away and family members were upstairs. Tanuja’s hands & mouth were tied. She is suspected to have died due to suffocation during the robbery. The incident inside the house of retired IPS officer in Hyderabad’s posh Prashasan Nagar has become a serious wake-up call on domestic worker verification and household security. Nepali Gangs have been targeting homes in Bengaluru, Bombay & Pune apart from Hyderabad Investigation is going on.