Skyroot successfully test fires 3rd stage of Vikram-1 rocket – The Times of India

HYDERABAD: Spacetech startup Skyroot Aerospace, which is gearing as much as ship India’s first personal business house launch automobile, Vikram-1, into decrease earth orbit, successfully examined the third stage of the rocket.
“The third stage of our Vikram-1 launch automobile, Kalam-100, roared to life for over 102 seconds – outfitted with a sophisticated flex nozzle for exact thrust vector management,” Skyroot introduced on Monday. “Kalam-100 generates a peak vacuum thrust of 100kN at an working space ratio of 60 in flight. It is a success engineered by many – individuals and computer systems,” it stated on social media platform X (previously Twitter).
Whereas the rocket is called Vikram-1 after Vikram Sarabhai, the daddy of India’s house programme, the third stage has been named Kalam-100 after India’s missileman and President APJ Abdul Kalam. The Hyderabad-primarily based startup stated the newest test builds on the success of the earlier mounted-nozzle static hearth test that used reducing-edge sensors to seize over 150 information channels.
The startup stated the automated launch pc and whole suite of Vikram-1 flight avionics, together with the mission pc however excluding the chipset, used within the test had been all developed by Skyroot in-home. The static test additionally integrated an in-home developed head-mounted protected arm (HMSA) to make sure the protected operation of the rocket stage.
The test was carried out at Photo voltaic Group’s testbed at Nagpur. Photo voltaic Group, which additionally holds a minority stake in Skyroot, offered the casting help for the third stage of the rocket. The different buyers in Skyroot embrace Singapore’s GIC and Temasek, the founders of Hyderabad-primarily based Greenko Group, Myntra founder Mukesh Bansal’s Meraki Labs, Sherpalo Ventures, Worldquant Ventures, AUM Ventures and Graph Ventures.