Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday virtually inaugurated Skyroot’s Infinity Campus here. He also unveiled space startup Skyroot’s first orbital rocket and praised Gen Z professionals for creating new technologies. The company’s orbital rocket Vikram-I has the capability to launch satellites to orbit
Prime Minister Narendra Modi during the virtual inauguration of Indian space startup Skyroot’s Infinity Campus in Hyderabad. PIC/PTI
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday virtually inaugurated Skyroot’s Infinity Campus here. He also unveiled space startup Skyroot’s first orbital rocket and praised Gen Z professionals for creating new technologies. The company’s orbital rocket Vikram-I has the capability to launch satellites to orbit.
“The Infinity Campus is a reflection of India’s new thought, innovation and the bigger youth power. Youth’s innovation, risk taking-ability and entrepreneurship are touching new heights,” the PM noted. “Gen Z engineers, Gen Z designers, Gen Z coders and Gen Z scientists are creating new technologies,” Modi said.
Historic space reforms
The PM highlighted the government’s ‘historic’ space reforms and said that opening up the space sector to private players has resulted in Skyroot and others coming up with such innovations. “India’s private space talent is making its own identity in the world. Today, India’s space sector is becoming an attractive destination for global investors,” added the PM.
Skyroot’s first orbital rocket Vikram-I. PIC/X@ChennuSridhar
Modi said that today in India’s space ecosystem, the private sector was emerging with flying colours. Over 300 space startups were giving new hopes to the sector. Modi recalled that India’s space journey started with limited resources, but its ambitions were never limited.
The space agency’s facilities and technologies were made available to the startups, he said, pointing out that India's space sector has been transformed into an open, cooperative and innovation-driven eco-system in the last six-seven years.
State-of-the-art facility
Skyroot's state-of-the-art facility will have around two lakh sq.ft. workspace for designing, developing, integrating and testing multiple launch vehicles, with 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 IIT alumni and former scientists of ISRO. In November 2022, Skyroot launched its sub-orbital rocket, Vikram-S, becoming the first Indian private company to do so.
Technology partnerships
Modi remarked that global companies want to manufacture satellites in India, avail launch services and seek technology partnerships, and stressed that the nation must make the most of this opportunity.
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