Hyderabad, Aug. 15 -- Hyderabad-based Skyroot Aerospace has partnered with diagnostic services provider Redcliffe Labs to study how diagnostic materials behave in space, in what the companies describe as India's first collaboration between the diagnostics and private space sectors.

According to a report by the Times of India, the partnership will combine Redcliffe's expertise in diagnostic research with Skyroot's launch and orbital capabilities to evaluate the stability of dry diagnostic reagents in low Earth orbit.

As part of the first mission, dubbed DRIFT-1, Redcliffe Labs will send samples of its dry reagents into orbit for 90 days, while an identical set will be retained on Earth for comparison. The findings are expected to help cr...