India, July 18 -- Hyderabad-based Skyroot Aerospace created history on Saturday with the successful launch of Vikram-1, India's first privately developed orbital launch vehicle. The mission, named Mission Aagaman, lifted off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota.

Skyroot Aerospace wrote on X, "Hello space, we have arrived! Vikram-1's Test Flight-1 has completed it's mission. The first ever Indian private sector launch has been successfully completed."

Besides satellites, the rocket also carried a handwritten postcard from Prime Minister Narendra Modi bearing the message "Vande Mataram", along with postcards from engineers, scientists and Indian astronauts, PTI reported.

Ahead of the launch, Modi described Vikram-1 as "a hi...