India's first privately-developed rocket reaches orbit on dramatic debut launch

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jdiez17•about 1 hour ago

Extremely strong performance from India’s Skyroot with their Vikram-1 rocket. I can say that many in the space industry are looking for new launch capacity to LEO.

hulitu•about 1 hour ago

> Extremely strong performance

Strong ? They shall learn from SpaceX how one explodes rockets on the launch pad. /s

bovermyer•about 1 hour ago

That's pretty cool. The phrase "3D-printed engine" stuck out to me as neat, too.

echoangle•about 1 hour ago

Rocket Lab has been printing engines for some time now

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutherford_(rocket_engine)

ColdStream•4 days ago

Fantastic news! Always good to see others manage achieve great things.