{"id":216844,"date":"2022-12-02T21:42:23","date_gmt":"2022-12-02T16:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=216844"},"modified":"2022-12-03T08:45:46","modified_gmt":"2022-12-03T03:15:46","slug":"agnikul-inaugurates-indias-first-private-space-vehicle-launch-pad-in-sriharikota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/agnikul-inaugurates-indias-first-private-space-vehicle-launch-pad-in-sriharikota\/","title":{"rendered":"Agnikul inaugurates India\u2019s first private space vehicle launch pad in Sriharikota"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article <\/span><b>\u201cAgnikul inaugurates India\u2019s first private space vehicle launch pad in Sriharikota\u201d<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> published in <\/span><b>Indian Express <\/b>on<b> 1st December 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chennai-based space tech startup Agnikul Cosmos inaugurated India\u2019s first private space vehicle launchpad at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre(SDSC) in Sriharikota.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is <\/b><b>Agnikul Launchpad Facility?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Agnikul launchpad facility has been designed and will be fully operated by space startup Agnikul Cosmos.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The facility has two parts: the Agnikul launchpad and the Agnikul mission control centre, which are four kilometers apart.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The launchpad has been designed to accommodate and support liquid stage-controlled launches.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Agnikul is planning to launch its Agnibaan rocket from this launchpad.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is Agnibaan Rocket?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Agnibaan is a two-stage launch vehicle that is capable of taking payloads of up to 100 kilograms to a low-earth orbit around 700 kilometres from the surface of the Earth.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Agnibaan rocket will be powered by the company\u2019s 3D-printed Agnilet engines.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Note:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Agnilet is the world&#8217;s first single-piece 3D-printed rocket engine fully designed and manufactured in India. It was successfully test-fired by Agnikul at IIT Madras in 2021.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 It is a \u201csemi-cryogenic\u201d engine that uses a mixture of liquid kerosene and super cold liquid oxygen to propel itself.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cAgnikul inaugurates India\u2019s first private space vehicle launch pad in Sriharikota\u201d published in Indian Express on 1st December 2022. What is the News? Chennai-based space tech startup Agnikul Cosmos inaugurated India\u2019s first private space vehicle launchpad at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre(SDSC) in Sriharikota. What is Agnikul&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/agnikul-inaugurates-indias-first-private-space-vehicle-launch-pad-in-sriharikota\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Agnikul inaugurates India\u2019s first private space vehicle launch pad in Sriharikota<\/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":[1566,1738,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","category-public","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216844","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=216844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}