India, July 18 -- Spacetech unicorn Skyroot successfully lifted off with Vikram-1, India's first private orbital rocket mission, marking one of the biggest moments for the country's startup ecosystem and spacetech industry.

The four-stage launch vehicle blasted off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota at around 11:30 IST as part of 'Mission Aagaman', the startup's maiden attempt to place payloads into Low Earth Orbit (LEO).

Originally scheduled within a launch window between July 12 and August 4, the mission is targeting an orbit at an altitude of 450 km and an inclination of 60 degrees.

Besides carrying customer payloads and hosted experiments from domestic and international customers, the primary objective of the missio...