Skyroot Aerospace, a Hyderabad-based space technology startup, has successfully test-fired the Dhawan-1 engine and is planning to launch Vikram-1 and Vikram-2 launch vehicles in a few years.<\/span><\/p>\n Dhawan-1 is India\u2019s <\/strong><\/span>first privately developed, fully cryogenic rocket engine<\/strong>. It runs on two high-performance rocket propellants \u2014 liquid natural gas (LNG) and liquid oxygen (LoX).<\/span><\/p>\n The engine was developed using 3D printing with a superalloy.<\/span><\/p>\n Click Here to read about Cryogenic Engine\u00a0<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n Vikram is a series of launch vehicles to be launched by Skyroot space. These vehicles are specially crafted for the small satellite market.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Vikram-1: <\/b>\u00a0It is based on a solid propulsion engine. After Skyroot successfully designed and developed the solid propulsion rocket engine, it became the first private firm in the country to do so.<\/span><\/p>\n Vikram-2:<\/b> This vehicle is using a cryogenic engine. It will be launched into orbit in the next 2 years.<\/span><\/p>\n Source: <\/b>This post is based on the article <\/span>\u201cHyderabad-based rocket men aim for the stars\u201d <\/b>published in<\/span> The Hindu on 6th December 2021.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What is the News? Skyroot Aerospace, a Hyderabad-based space technology startup, has successfully test-fired the Dhawan-1 engine and is planning to launch Vikram-1 and Vikram-2 launch vehicles in a few years. What is Dhawan-1? Dhawan-1 is India\u2019s first privately developed, fully cryogenic rocket engine. It runs on two high-performance rocket propellants \u2014 liquid natural gas… Continue reading India’s First private Cryogenic Engine – Hyderabad-based rocket men aim for the stars<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,9],"tags":[10498],"class_list":["post-151134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700775151,"cached_date":1704778993},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}What is Dhawan-1?<\/b><\/h5>\n
What is Vikram?<\/b><\/h5>\n