Pawan Kumar Chandana

New Capabilities

Led Skyroot to its first orbital flight

Until this week, only two countries had a homegrown private company that could put a rocket into orbit on its own: the United States and China. On July 18, India became the third. A Hyderabad startup called Skyroot Aerospace flew its Vikram-1 rocket from Sriharikota and placed customer satellites into a 450-kilometer orbit.

Updated Jul 18