{"id":554074,"date":"2026-07-17T08:31:24","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T08:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/554074\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T08:31:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T08:31:24","slug":"indias-first-private-orbital-rocket-skyroot-aerospaces-vikram-1-set-for-july-18-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/554074\/","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s First Private Orbital Rocket Skyroot Aerospace&#8217;s Vikram-1 Set For July 18 Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                                                                New Delhi: <\/p>\n<p>Hyderabad-based space startup, Skyroot Aerospace is set to make history on July 18 with the first launch of its orbital rocket, Vikram-1. The flight mission could mark India&#8217;s entry into the global private orbital launch market.<\/p>\n<p>The launch, named Mission Aagaman, is scheduled for 11:30 am from the First Launch Pad at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC-SHAR) in Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">It&#8217;s official. \ud83d\ude80<br \/>July 18. 11:30 AM IST.<br \/>Vikram-1. Test Flight-1. Mission Aagaman.<\/p>\n<p>India&#8217;s first private orbital launch from the historic First Launch Pad at SDSC-SHAR, Sriharikota.<\/p>\n<p>The countdown begins. \ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf3<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/Vikram1?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">#Vikram1<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/MissionAagaman?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">#MissionAagaman<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/SkyrootAerospace?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">#SkyrootAerospace<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/OpeningSpaceForAll?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">#OpeningSpaceForAll<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tGHCbQzsm8\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/tGHCbQzsm8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Skyroot Aerospace (@SkyrootA) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SkyrootA\/status\/2077678346390139145?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">July 16, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The company said all necessary airspace and maritime clearances have been obtained, with authorities notifying restricted zones along the rocket&#8217;s flight path and impact corridor ahead of the mission.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The flight, company said, marks India&#8217;s entry into the global private orbital launch market and represents a significant milestone for the country&#8217;s space ecosystem.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mission Aagaman will be the first test flight of Vikram-1, India&#8217;s privately developed oribtal launch vechicle.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The launch will also be Skyroot&#8217;s second space mission after the successful flight of Vikram-S suborbital rocket on November 18, 2022, which became the first privately built rocket to reach space from Indian soil.<\/p>\n<p>The company said Mission Aagaman is intended to validate the performance of Skyroot&#8217;s orbital launch vehicle and key technologies in flight.<\/p>\n<p>The mission is expected to carry multiple payloads. As Vikram-1 takes to the skies on its maiden orbital mission, one of its most closely watched payloads will be Mission Embrace, a robotic technology developed by Hyderabad based startup Cosmoserve Space.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"sp_lnk2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/india-news\/hyderabad-startup-skyroot-aerospaces-vikram-1-plans-robotic-hug-to-clean-up-space-junk-11778480\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">As reported earlier by NDTV<\/a>, Cosmoserve aims to test what it described as the world&#8217;s first soft robotic capture system in orbit. The technology is designed to gentyl capture defunct satellites and orbital debris using flexible robotoc arms.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The technology is aimed at solving one of the biggest challenges facing the space industry today &#8211; space junk.<\/p>\n<p>                                    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Delhi: Hyderabad-based space startup, Skyroot Aerospace is set to make history on July 18 with the first&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":554075,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[61,60,234427,82,90649,247,234426],"class_list":["post-554074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-orbital-rocket","tag-science","tag-skyroot-aerospace","tag-space","tag-vikram-1-rocket"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=554074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/554075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}