Vikram-I

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Vikram-I is a four-stage, expendable orbital small-lift launch vehicle developed by Skyroot Aerospace. Its first three stages are solid stages, while the fourth stage is a liquid stage.

Skyroot Aerospace unveiled the Vikram-I launch vehicle in October 2023 at its MAX-Q headquarters in Hyderabad. The company stated that the rocket was developed to serve the growing global small satellite launch market.

The vehicle's development followed the successful launch of the suborbital demonstrator Vikram-S in November 2022, which made Skyroot the first Indian private company to launch a rocket from the ISRO's launch facilities.

In May 2022, Skyroot completed a full-duration static test of the Kalam-100 solid rocket stage, a component of Vikram-I. Additional qualification tests, including stage separation tests and avionics validation, were carried out through 2024 and 2025.

In November 2025, Prime Minister Narendra Modi unveiled the flight-ready configuration of Vikram-I during the inauguration of Skyroot’s Infinity Campus in Hyderabad.

If all goes according to plan, Skyroot's Vikram-1 rocket will become the first privately developed Indian rocket to attempt an orbital mission. 

NDTV, Wikipedia

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