Skyroot Aerospace tests upper stage rocket engine Raman

Skyroot Aerospace, a Spacetech startup has successfully test fired an upper stage rocket engine Raman. With this, Skyroot Aerospace has become the first Indian private firm to exhibit the potential to build a homegrown rocket engine. Raman is a 3-D printed rocket engine which has been named after Nobel laureate CV Raman.

Skyroot Aerospace expects to launch its first rocket, which can hurl satellites of 250-700 kgs, into a lower earth orbit by December 2021. These developments from the private players has become possible after the union cabinet’s approval of private player participation in space in June 2020.