Skyroot Aerospace

Lift-off for Infinity🚀 The Honourable Prime Minister Shri @narendramodi has given wings to our dreams: Inaugurating our brand new Infinity Campus and unveiling our flight-ready Vikram-1 orbital launch vehicle. This moment brings both inspiration and responsibility as we build a future of infinite possibilities.✨ #IndiatoInfinity

This is the story of building Vikram-1 and the preparations for its maiden flight. Every system built, every test run, every major decision until the final countdown at the launchpad, documented. #SkyrootAerospace #Vikram1 #JourneyToOrbit

Tomorrow, we begin to tell the story of how Vikram-1 was built. Journey to Orbit, a Skyroot miniseries. Trailer out 20.05.2026. #SkyrootAerospace #Vikram1 #JourneyToOrbit

Skyroot Aerospace has raised $60 million at a valuation of $1.1 billion. Vikram-1, India's first privately developed orbital rocket, is weeks from its maiden flight. This capital will go toward scaling launch cadence for Vikram-1, expanding manufacturing, and developing Vikram-2 — a 1-tonne class vehicle with an advanced cryogenic upper stage. We started with a conviction: satellite operators worldwide deserve reliable, affordable, dedicated access to orbit. Vikram-S proved the technology in 2022. Vikram-1 takes it to orbit. Thank you to every investor, partner, and team member who has been part of building this. Sherpalo Ventures GIC Funds managed by BlackRock Founders of Greenko Group Arkam Ventures Playbook Partners Shanghvi Family Office And others Opening Space for All. 🚀 #SkyrootAerospace

Great chatting with @Bloomberg on our upcoming Vikram-1 launch and what is means for India, the global space industry and for @SkyrootA. 🚀 @haslindatv #OpeningSpaceForAll bloomberg.com/news/videos/20…

On April 25, Vikram-1 was flagged off from Hyderabad by the Hon'ble Chief Minister of Telangana, Shri A. Revanth Reddy garu — marking the end of pre-flight testing at Max-Q and the beginning of launch integration at Sriharikota. Here's how the day unfolded. ⏪ #Hyd2Space #Vikram1 #SkyrootAerospace

Vikram-1 is headed to the spaceport. 🚀 Today, Hon'ble Chief Minister of Telangana, Shri A. Revanth Reddy garu (@TelanganaCMO, @revanth_anumula) flagged off Vikram-1 from our Max-Q campus in Hyderabad, marking the completion of the pre-flight integrated test campaign. Grateful to the Hon'ble Chief Minister, Hon'ble Minister for IT, Electronics & Communications, Industries & Commerce and Legislative Affairs of Telangana, Shri D. Sridhar Babu garu (@OffDSB), and all the esteemed dignitaries who joined us today. Thank you to IN-SPACe and ISRO for your continued support. #Hyd2Space #Vikram1 #SkyrootAerospace

Vikram-1's Integrated Electrical Test Campaign — Phase 3 of pre-launch testing — is complete. This campaign brought everything together — the vehicle, ground software, and electrical interfaces — running as one system for the first time. Every on-board system had to initialize correctly. Every sensor, actuator, and control element had to respond exactly as commanded. Every team had to work together exactly as they would on launch day. And it did. 🫡 Next stop: Sriharikota.🚀 #Vikram1 #SkyrootAerospace

At the top of the vehicle sits the Orbital Adjustment Module (OAM), responsible for the final, most precise act of the mission: placing each satellite into its exact orbit. In flight, these structures will contend with intense vibrations across every direction. And these will be sustained waves at specific frequencies throughout the ascent. Structures that aren't engineered precisely can fail under these conditions. Our teams subjected them to the full range of vibrations the rocket may experience in flight. Twenty hertz to two thousand. Three different axes. Test after test. All structures cleared. Phase 3 checks are now underway: all systems, ground software, all electrical interfaces, full flight simulation tested together. #Vikram1 #SkyrootAerospace

Vikram-1's interstages do far more than connect stages. Packed into their carbon composite structures are flight computers, navigation sensors, power systems, stage-separation mechanisms, and retro motors timed to fire within milliseconds of stage separation events.

The Avionics and Integration teams conducted Nozzle Actuator-in-Loop Simulation (AILS), a critical milestone before launch. The nozzle actuators (the mechanisms that help steer the rocket) and flight computer were run together in a simulated flight environment under conditions as close to flight as we can create on the ground. They worked in sync as designed and remained stable. 🚀 #Vikram1 #SkyrootAerospace

When Vikram-1 reaches space, the payload fairing needs to split apart and fall away cleanly, protecting the satellite on the way up, then getting out of the way when its job is done. The final pre-flight separation test on flight hardware confirms the pneumatic separation system is a stable, proven design. Next stop: Sriharikota. 🚀 #Vikram1 #SkyrootAerospace #SpaceTech

Might sound clichéd. But we just can't stop mooning over these visuals 😍

On April 3rd, 1984, one Indian, #RakeshSharma, looked down at Earth from space. Today, India has landed on the Moon, reached Mars orbit, sent an astronaut (@gagan_shux) to the International Space Station, and established a thriving space industry. And this is just the beginning. At Skyroot, we're proud to be part of this journey.🚀 #FirstIndianCitizenInSpace #IndianAstronaut

@prasadbankar21 You're in the throat of it now. The only way out is through. Good luck 🙌

@SkyrootA yoo I have a whole project going around nozzle theory for this semester.

Rockets reach high speeds of several kilometres per second. How? The shape of the nozzle. #FlowState #RocketScience #SkyrootAerospace

Image 1: Vikram-1 Flight Payload Fairing wrapped in acoustic blankets Image 2: Flight Payload Fairing in the Acoustic Test Chamber An opera singer can shatter a wine glass with sound alone. The right frequency, enough pressure, and it's done. 👩‍🎤🔊🍷 In flight, a payload fairing faces something similar — twice on its journey to space. Only, it's tens of thousands of times more intense. First, the engine roar at lift-off. Then, shockwaves battering the nose cone as the vehicle crosses transonic speeds. The payload fairing takes the beating so the satellite inside doesn't have to. On the ground, we replicate this sound storm in an acoustic chamber. The team subjected Vikram-1's flight payload fairing to an overall sound pressure level of ~150 dB, across the full frequency spectrum it will experience in flight. It passed. Next, it moves to functional separation testing — to prove the separation systems are still flight-ready after the intense battering they just went through. 🚀 #Vikram1 #SkyrootAerospace #SpaceTech

Late to the calendar. Not to the spirit. This Women's Day, we got to hear from two remarkable women who've walked paths that weren't easy: @amalaakkineni1, actor, dancer, philanthropist, and animal activist; and Dr. Sheena Rani, Distinguished Scientist & Director General, MCC, DRDO. Their distinctly different journeys hold a common thread: to lead with conviction, to build in spaces that weren't always built for them, and to leave the light on for those who follow. Lessons our team carries to heart as we chart our own course in space. To every woman at Skyroot: this one was for you ♀️💟