Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate Indian space startup Skyroot’s Infinity Campus through video conferencing on Thursday. He will also unveil Vikram-I, Skyroot’s first orbital rocket. The Infinity Campus is a state-of-the-art facility spread over two lakh square feet of workspace for designing, developing, integrating and testing multiple launch vehicles. It will have a capacity to build one orbital rocket every month.
Skyroot is India’s leading private space company, founded by Pawan Chandana and Bharath Dhaka, both alumni of Indian Institutes of Technology and former scientists of ISRO turned entrepreneurs. In November 2022, Skyroot launched its sub-orbital rocket, Vikram-S, becoming the first Indian private company to launch a rocket to space.The rapid rise of private space enterprises is a testament to the success of the transformative reforms carried out by the Government in the last few years. It reinforces India’s leadership as a confident and capable global space power.
