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<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nHyderabad\/Bangalore: India\u2019s private space industry is set to accelerate its activity after Hyderabad-based Skyroot Aerospace created history by reaching orbit with Vikram-1 on its maiden mission, a feat no private launch company globally has matched.SpaceX, now the world\u2019s dominant commercial launch provider, reached orbit after three failed attempts. Skyroot\u2019s success has turned attention to Indian spacetech startups building rockets, including reusable ones, satellites, payloads, propulsion systems and space-data businesses as they prepare to shift from demonstrations to commercial missions.Skyroot is gearing up for at least one more Vikram-1 test mission by the end of this year and hopes to be ready with a 1,000kg payload capacity rocket — Vikram-2 — for launch by the end of next year, Pawan Kumar Chandana, co-founder, Skyroot Aerospace, told TOI a day after the successful Mission Aagaman. The ultimate goal is to reach a cadence of producing one rocket per month.Chennai-based Agnikul Cosmos too is planning Mission 02 within a year, carrying paying customer satellites and attempting to land the rocket\u2019s lower stage on a sea barge. Co-founder Srinath Ravichandran said Agnikul also wants to keep the upper stage in orbit as a satellite platform.\u201cIf it feels like a satellite and functions like a satellite, you may as well make it a satellite,\u201d he said. Agnikul plans Missions 02, 03 and 04 within four to five months of one another, all with paying payloads. On reusability, Ravichandran said, \u201cA typical rocket has one brain. A reusable rocket has two brains.\u201dBengaluru-based EtherealX expects to complete qualification tests for its Pegasus upper-stage engine and Stallion booster engine by year-end. Co-founder Manu Nair said reusability was part of the vehicle design from the start. \u201cIt is the same base vehicle,\u201d he said. \u201cNo one can replicate SpaceX\u2019s model outright,\u201d Nair added. \u201cOur default posture, and where the economics work best for us, is full reusability.\u201dSatellite companies are also preparing for more frequent launches. GalaxEye, which launched its first satellite in May before the mission was disrupted by a solar storm, said the development could influence future launch choices.It is developing Opto-SAR satellites, combining optical imaging and synthetic aperture radar on the same spacecraft. \u201cOur idea is now to put up two satellites in two years. These would again be Opto-SAR satellites, to kind of perfect it up there,\u201d said co-founder Pranit Mehta. The next spacecraft may be heavier than the earlier 190kg satellite. \u201cIt will definitely not be a repeat of what went. It will certainly be better,\u201d he said.Dhruva Space co-founder Sanjay Nekkanti said more Indian launch options would help satellite companies compete globally. \u201cMore launches would mean that we would be able to capture more market opportunities, both within India and outside India,\u201d he said.Dhruva is working on nano-, micro- and CubeSat missions, with launches expected from the last quarter of this year and early next year. Its next mission will be a 50kg nanosatellite carrying multiple customer payloads. Nekkanti said, \u201cOur cadence is to produce one satellite every month starting next year. For CubeSats, we can produce almost one every week.\u201d Dhruva has 22 satellites on its 24-month manifest.TakeMe2Space founder Ronak Kumar Samantray said Skyroot\u2019s success could reduce dependence on foreign launch providers. \u201cThe fact that India now has a private rocket really unlocks a lot of opportunities \u2014 for defence and for the private sector,\u201d he said.TakeMe2Space, which is building orbital data centres, will evaluate Skyroot as a first preference for future missions. \u201cAs startups, we need business continuity. It is very important that we get a professional reply and a launch cadence,\u201d Samantray said. The company plans two satellites this year, four next year and 20,000 by 2033.Pixxel expects to have more than 50 satellites under development or deployment over the next year as it moves towards a 100-satellite network. Its next Honeybee series will add short-wave infrared capability. \u201cMore importantly, this is about building a far more capable planetary infrastructure,\u201d said Pixxel\u2019s Awais Ahmed.Digantara Industries will begin deploying its next satellites from the coming quarter, targeting 17 satellites by the end of 2027. Founder and CEO Anirudh Sharma said, \u201cEvery satellite going up from here is built for operational use from day one.\u201d The company expects real-time space-surveillance data by year-end and missile-warning services within 12 to 16 months. \u201cSpace-based sensors have an unobstructed view,\u201d Sharma said.Avijeet Alagathi, managing partner at Shastra VC, said, \u201cLaunch gets us to orbit; payloads and platforms are what will generate revenue and strategic value from being there.\u201d<\/div>\n After Skyroot, more pvt firms aim to take commercial dreams to sky Sriharikota: Vikram-1 Test Flight-1 (Mission Aagaman), India’s first private orbital rocket launch, lifts off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre, in Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh, Saturday, July 18, 2026. 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