{"id":798245,"date":"2026-07-13T02:56:31","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T02:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/798245\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T02:56:31","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T02:56:31","slug":"indias-skyroot-says-it-can-build-a-space-rocket-a-month-as-launch-nears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/798245\/","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s Skyroot says it can build a space rocket a month as launch nears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/editor-s-picks\/interview\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Interview<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">CEO targets full commercialization in 2027 after India&#8217;s 1st private orbital launch<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/images.ft.com\/v3\/image\/raw\/https%3A%2F%2Fcms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com%2Fimages%2F4%2F5%2F6%2F5%2F12745654-1-eng-GB%2Fe021373755d4-HT2A1830-Edit.jpg?fit=cover&amp;gravity=faces&amp;dpr=2&amp;quality=medium&amp;source=nar-cms&amp;format=auto&amp;width=780\" alt=\"20260709 skyroot ceo\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Skyroot CEO Pawan Chandana says the rocket maker, valued at $1.1 billion, is also working on the next iteration of its\u00a0launch vehicle. (Skyroot)<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">MUMBAI &#8212; Indian rocket maker Skyroot Aerospace already has the capacity to build a launch vehicle every month as it moves toward full commercialization by next year, co-founder and Chief Executive Pawan Chandana told Nikkei Asia just days before the window opens for the startup&#8217;s planned orbital rocket launch, which would be India&#8217;s first by a private company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Interview CEO targets full commercialization in 2027 after India&#8217;s 1st private orbital launch Skyroot CEO Pawan Chandana says&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":798246,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[22337,49,8071,48,43845,2182,10419,7480,100576,19482,2542,66,281305,306],"class_list":["post-798245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-build","tag-ca","tag-can","tag-canada","tag-indias","tag-it","tag-launch","tag-month","tag-nears","tag-rocket","tag-says","tag-science","tag-skyroot","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=798245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/798246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}