India, July 20 -- Skyroot's Historic Lift-Off

Skyroot Aerospace has become the first Indian private company to place a rocket into orbit. The successful lift-off of its Vikram-1 rocket validated the spacetech unicorn's launch technology and other key systems, opening the door for future commercial missions.

A Historic Flight: Under Mission Aagaman, Vikram-1 successfully injected customer payloads into low Earth orbit (LEO) and completed the flight sequence needed to prove that the rocket works under real conditions. The unicorn claims that the mission validated propulsion, telemetry, avionics, guidance, navigation, control and separation systems.

With this, Skyroot joins a handful of American and Chinese companies capable of putting pa...