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Skyroot Aerospace becomes first Indian company to test-fire solid-fueled rocket engine
Written By: Sidharth MP | Edited By: Pushkar Tiwari | Updated: Dec 28, 2020, 16:19 PM IST
New Delhi: Indian Space startup, Skyroot Aerospace, has proven the crucial propulsion technology of their maiden rocket Vikram-1, with the latest test-firing of an engine. Vikram-1 rocket is powered by four engines - three solid-fuel stages and one Liquid-fuel stage that the firm has designed and developed.
In August this year, the company had tested its liquid-fueled engine and now has proven the technology of the solid-fueled engine (Kalam-5), by successfully test-firing a miniature version.
Solid motors or solid-fueled engines are high thrust, low-cost rocket engines with propellant in solid form. They are highly reliable as they have very few moving parts. The Engine Testing was done at a private test facility on December 22 in Nagpur owned by Solar Industries, which is India's largest explosives manufacturer and a leading Space and Defence contractor (also partner and investor in Skyroot).
Theoretically, this means that the company is close to realizing their dreams of putting together an orbital-class rocket, as its propulsion technology is the hardest to master.
A typical rocket consists of two or more stages, each of which would have its own engines(either single or packed in a cluster). Simply put, a rocket is a combination of multiple engines(stages) that are vertically stacked.
“This test demonstrates the capability of our technology for the Vikram-1 rocket. Though we have fired a scaled-down engine during this successful demonstration, it must be noted that building a smaller engine is also a complex process. This successful test firing gives us the confidence that the bigger models will succeed,” Pawan K Chandana, CEO, Skyroot Aerospace told Zee Media.
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Written By: Sidharth MP | Edited By: Pushkar Tiwari | Updated: Dec 28, 2020, 16:19 PM IST
New Delhi: Indian Space startup, Skyroot Aerospace, has proven the crucial propulsion technology of their maiden rocket Vikram-1, with the latest test-firing of an engine. Vikram-1 rocket is powered by four engines - three solid-fuel stages and one Liquid-fuel stage that the firm has designed and developed.
In August this year, the company had tested its liquid-fueled engine and now has proven the technology of the solid-fueled engine (Kalam-5), by successfully test-firing a miniature version.
Solid motors or solid-fueled engines are high thrust, low-cost rocket engines with propellant in solid form. They are highly reliable as they have very few moving parts. The Engine Testing was done at a private test facility on December 22 in Nagpur owned by Solar Industries, which is India's largest explosives manufacturer and a leading Space and Defence contractor (also partner and investor in Skyroot).
Theoretically, this means that the company is close to realizing their dreams of putting together an orbital-class rocket, as its propulsion technology is the hardest to master.
A typical rocket consists of two or more stages, each of which would have its own engines(either single or packed in a cluster). Simply put, a rocket is a combination of multiple engines(stages) that are vertically stacked.
“This test demonstrates the capability of our technology for the Vikram-1 rocket. Though we have fired a scaled-down engine during this successful demonstration, it must be noted that building a smaller engine is also a complex process. This successful test firing gives us the confidence that the bigger models will succeed,” Pawan K Chandana, CEO, Skyroot Aerospace told Zee Media.
Skyroot Aerospace becomes first Indian company to test-fire solid-fueled rocket engine
The company had tested its liquid-fueled engine in August this year.
where its Ex-ISRO scientists firms or not but most probably it was help by west, first we have to straighten up our corrupt political and economic system and improve our social fabric and we are not claiming and intended to be superpower but your pathetic shining fcuk India and WORLD BIGGEST SH!T DEMOCARACY IS CLAIMING TO BE A SUPERPOWER, and you're already in SUPERPOWER category! oh sorry you're in HYPER POWER OF THE UNIVERSE CATEGORY
. It is a fact that despite being a Chinese ally you still haven’t achieved what our Private companies are achieving. You will obviously say that anything India does is of poor quality or western help. Sure West will help India grow in space domain where they want to maintain their own dominance only.
