Skyroot to set up India’s 1st Integrated Rocket Design, Manufacturing & Testing Facility in Telangana

Hyderabad, Nov 26 (FN Agency) Hyderabad-based Space tech start-up Skyroot Aerospace, which created history recently by successfully launching of India’s first privately built launch vehicle – ‘Vikram-S rocket from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, on Friday announced to establish India’s first Integrated Rocket Design, Manufacturing and Testing Facility in Telangana. This was announced at a programme organized at T-Hub here to celebrate Skyroot Aerospace’s successful launch of Vikram-S rocket. The Hyderabad based startup, incubated at T-Hub, and supported by TWorks launched India’s first private rocket on November 18, 2022. Participating as Guest of Honour at the programme, Telangana Industries and Commerce Minister K.T. Rama Rao (KTR) expressed happiness that India’s first Integrated Rocket Design, Manufacturing and Testing Facility, by Skyroot Aerospace’s facility, will be based in Telangana. Mr KTR assured the startup’s Co-Founders Pawan Kumar Chandana and Naga Bharath Daka of complete support for establishing the facility to design, manufacture, and test rockets in Telangana.

Congratulating the team, which endured hardships, Mr KTR expressed pride and happiness that a spacetech company from Hyderabad, India, broke all the barriers. The Minister said that only a few companies across the world aced rocket science and achieved success in the first go. The launch was a truly historic moment. Recalling his visit to a museum at Suzuki’s Headquarters in Japan where a bunch of school kids were on a tour, Mr KTR said that there was a vending machine where children can customize toy cars by selecting car, colour, name, make and other aspects. He said that the process teaches the young minds how to make a car, customize it. Design innovation was taught to the children in a subtle and indirect fashion, which people do not typically inculcate from a young age. He said that if fascination with design thinking is developed from childhood, people would gravitate towards it, which is missing in our system. The Minister said that he would be thrilled to see Hyderabad as a Spacetech capital of India, and recalled that the State government already launched a Space Tech Policy. He conveyed best wishes to Dhruva Space, another spacetech startup based in Hyderabad, which would launch two satellites on Saturday.