{"id":8237,"date":"2022-11-17T12:18:01","date_gmt":"2022-11-17T06:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=8237"},"modified":"2025-03-29T01:50:14","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T20:20:14","slug":"vikram-suborbital-vks-rocket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/vikram-suborbital-vks-rocket\/","title":{"rendered":"Vikram-suborbital (VKS) rocket"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Vikram-suborbital (VKS) rocket:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>VKS rocket is developed by the the non-government entity\/startup, Skyroot Aerospace Pvt Ltd (SAPL).<\/li>\n<li>Apart from being the\u00a0<strong>nation\u2019s first private launch<\/strong>, it will also be the maiden mission of Skyroot Aerospace, named \u2018<strong>Prarambh\u2019<\/strong>. It will carry a total of\u00a0<strong>three payloads in space, including one from the foreign customers.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>VKS rocket<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a\u00a0<strong>single stage spin stabilized solid propellant rocket<\/strong>\u00a0with mass of approx. 550 kilograms.<\/li>\n<li>The rocket goes to the\u00a0<strong>max altitude of 101 kilometers<\/strong>\u00a0and splashes into the sea and the overall duration of launch is 300 seconds only.<\/li>\n<li>Skyroot was the first startup to sign a Memorandum of Understanding with ISRO for launching its rockets.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source :\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.livemint.com\/news\/india\/isro-to-make-history-with-maiden-private-rocket-launch-jitendra-singh-11668609125105.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Livemint<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VKS rocket is developed by the the non-government entity\/startup, Skyroot Aerospace Pvt Ltd (SAPL).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":8238,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8237","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\/8237","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=8237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}