Bengaluru, India, July 2, 2026 (AFP) - Space startup to launch India's first private orbital rocket

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Indian startup Skyroot Aerospace said Thursday it would hold the maiden test flight of the country's first privately developed orbital-class rocket in the coming weeks. The Vikram-1 rocket, designed to carry small satellites into low-Earth orbit, will lift off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota between July 12 and August 4, the company said. "The countdown to history has begun," Skyroot co-founder and chief executive Pawan Kumar C......

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