EDITORIALPRIVATE SPACE SECTOR POLICY
Infrastructure Gift or Infrastructure Ceiling? What Vikram-1 Actually Proves
Skyroot Aerospace's Vikram-1 reached orbit on July 18, 2026, becoming India's first privately built and launched orbital rocket and only the third country's private sector, after the US and China, to achieve this independently. The launch is being read as the clearest evidence yet that India's 2020-2023 space privatisation reforms are producing real results, though the mission relied heavily on ISRO's Sriharikota…
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