Skyroot Aerospace,a Hyderabad based space tech startup announced on November 11 that India’s first privately manufactured rocket, Vikram-S, will be launched from Sriharikota on November 15. The announcement of the launch comes two months after Skyroot said it had secured 51 USD Dollars which is approximately Rs.403 crore in Series-B funding. The company said that the funding would help with their “initial development launches”.

Earlier, the startup had been given a launch window of November 12 to 16. The project is named Mission Prarambh and the mission’s director will be Pawan Kumar Chandana, the startup’s CEO.

Vikram-S, the first in the Vikram series of rockets, is powered by a solid fuel engine and has 3D-printed motors. During the flight, three customer payloads will be carried.

Earlier, Chandana said that many of the rocket’s subsystems and technologies would be tested during the mission’s pre lift off and post lift off stages.

“One of the key areas that we would be monitoring closely would be the performance of our solid-fueled rocket engine and several avionics on board”, Chandana had said.

The launch is also significant for Skyroot Aerospace because it will help validate 80 percent of the technologies in the Vikram series of orbital space launch vehicles, as well as the start ups future plans to launch its Vikram-I rocket next year.

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