{"id":34784,"date":"2022-11-19T09:40:55","date_gmt":"2022-11-19T04:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=34784"},"modified":"2025-04-20T17:14:42","modified_gmt":"2025-04-20T11:44:42","slug":"vikram-s-indias-first-private-sector-rocket-launched-under-mission-prarambh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/vikram-s-indias-first-private-sector-rocket-launched-under-mission-prarambh\/","title":{"rendered":"Vikram-S: India\u2019s First Private Sector Rocket Launched Under Mission Prarambh"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>What\u2019s in today\u2019s article:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>India\u2019s Space Sector \u2013 About, FDI in space sector<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>About Mission Prarambh and Vikram-S<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Significance\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Why In News?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Vikram-S, India&#8217;s first privately developed launch vehicle, recently took off on its first flight from the Indian Space Research Organization&#8217;s (ISRO) Sriharikota spaceport.<\/li>\n<li>The mission, dubbed Prarambh (the beginning), is the\u00a0<strong>Indian private sector&#8217;s first push<\/strong>\u00a0into the lucrative space launch market.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>India\u2019s Space Sector<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Led by Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), India\u2019s space program has impressively evolved for the past 50 years.<\/li>\n<li>In terms of technological capabilities\u00a0<u>India ranks among the top 5 space faring nations of the world<\/u>.\n<ul>\n<li>India is globally recognised for building low-cost satellites and launch vehicles.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Despite having world\u2019s most accomplished space program, India\u2019s space sector accounts for only\u00a0<u>2-3% of the global space economy<\/u>.\n<ul>\n<li>The global space economy is estimated at ~US $440 billion.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>To increase the share in the global business, Government of India has initiated the space sector reforms, to promote, handhold, regulate and authorise private enterprises and start-ups to undertake space activities.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) Approval in Space Sector:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Presently, FDI in space is allowed under government route only for satellite establishment and operations.<\/li>\n<li>FDI in space is approved by the Government on a case-by-case basis and often this approval takes time.<\/li>\n<li>However, witnessing the change in approach of the Indian Government towards private players involvement,\u00a0<strong>Indian companies will be allowed to invest up to 100% and 70% through FDI with approval of centre in all the streams<\/strong>\u00a0Upstream, mid-stream and downstream segment.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>About Mission Prarambh and Vikram-S:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a mission in which ISRO launched<strong>\u00a0Vikram-S<\/strong>, India&#8217;s first privately manufactured launch vehicle developed by Hyderabad-based Skyroot Aerospace.<\/li>\n<li>Vikram-S rocket, which is named after Vikram Sarabhai &#8211; the founder of India\u2019s space programme, is a\u00a0<strong>single-stage solid fuel suborbital launch<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>In a sub-orbital flight, the vehicle travels slower than the orbital velocity, which means it is fast enough to reach outer space, but not fast enough to stay in an orbit around the Earth.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The engine used in the launch vehicle &#8211;\u00a0<strong>Kalam-80<\/strong>, is named after former president Dr A P J Abdul Kalam.<\/li>\n<li>It will carry<strong>\u00a03 customer payloads<\/strong>\u00a0(2 Indian and 1 foreign), including one by SpaceKidz India called\u00a0<strong>FunSat<\/strong>, parts of which were developed by school students.<\/li>\n<li>The Vikram-S is a\u00a0<strong>Small Satellite Launch Vehicle<\/strong>\u00a0(SSLV), which will carry between 290 kg and 560 kg payloads into\u00a0<u>sun-synchronous polar orbits<\/u>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Significance:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The performance of the Vikram-S and its engine Kalam-80 will help test and validate technologies in the Vikram series space launch vehicles.\n<ul>\n<li>The company is designing\u00a0<u>3 Vikram rockets\u00a0<\/u>that will use various solid and cryogenic fuels and have their core structure built using\u00a0<strong>carbon composites<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The thrusters used for spin stability in the vehicle have been\u00a0<strong>3D printed<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The entry of private players in the space sector in India with more private sector missions coming soon.\n<ul>\n<li><strong>For example,\u00a0<\/strong>Agnikul Cosmos, whose\u00a0<u>semi-cryogenic Agnilet<\/u>\u00a0engine was test-fired recently at ISRO\u2019s vertical testing facility at Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station (TERLS), Thiruvananthapuram.<\/li>\n<li>ISRO&#8217;s SSLV is also likely to be manufactured and operated by private players soon.<\/li>\n<li>Around\u00a0<strong>100 start-ups<\/strong>\u00a0have registered with the ISRO and are working closely with it in various domains of the space sector.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vikram-S is India&#8217;s first privately developed launch vehicle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":34785,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-34784","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-mains-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}