{"id":7623,"date":"2023-04-06T06:06:31","date_gmt":"2023-04-06T00:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=7623"},"modified":"2025-03-28T21:51:43","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T16:21:43","slug":"vikram-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/vikram-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Vikram-S"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Vikram-S:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It was developed by the Hyderabad-based Skyroot Aerospace.<\/li>\n<li>The mission named \u2018Prarambh\u2019 (the beginning), since it is the first mission for Skyroot.<\/li>\n<li>With this maiden mission, Skyroot is set to become the first private space company in India to launch a rocket into space.<\/li>\n<li>The launch mission will be a suborbital spaceflight, and will carry three customer payloads to the intended orbit.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Suborbital spaceflight:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>A suborbital spaceflight refers to a height of around 100km from the Earth&#8217;s surface<\/strong>, and is done at a lower altitude than an orbital flight, which reaches at least a low-Earth orbit \u2014 between around 200km to 2,000km from Earth.<\/li>\n<li>Suborbital flights are known to be\u00a0<strong>important for conducting tests of space missions<\/strong>, before final commercial missions take place.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Among the three payloads is a 2.5kg satellite of another space startup, Space Kidz India, which has been built by students from India, the US and Indonesia.<\/li>\n<li>Skyroot, a two-time national award winner, is the first start-up to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with ISRO in this regard.<\/li>\n<li>The Vikram series, named after the founder of India\u2019s space programme Dr Vikram Sarabhai, are all-carbon-fibre structures that can launch up to 800 kg of payloads to the Low Earth Orbit.<\/li>\n<li>Skyroot has designed the series for the small satellite market at low costs and with capabilities for multi-orbit insertion.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Indian National Space Promotion and Authorisation Centre (IN-SPACe):<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The establishment of IN-SPACe was announced in June 2020.<\/li>\n<li>It is an autonomous and single window nodal agency in the Department of Space for the promotion, encouragement and regulation of space activities of both government and private entities.<\/li>\n<li>It also facilitates the usage of ISRO facilities by private entities.<\/li>\n<li>The programme also witnessed the exchange of MoUs between IN-SPACe and private sector companies working in the field of space-based applications and services.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source :\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/epaper.thehindu.com\/Home\/ShareArticle?OrgId=GPRAG7PVC.1&amp;imageview=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Hindu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vikram-S is India&#8217;s first privately built rocket. It&#8217;s maiden flight lifted on 18 November 2022 at 11am.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":7624,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7623","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7623","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=7623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}