Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday virtually inaugurated Indian space startup Skyroot’s Infinity Campus, here, and highlighted the government’s ‘historic’ space reforms.
He also unveiled the company’s first orbital rocket, Vikram-I which has capability to launch satellites to orbit.
In his address, the PM
pointed out at the government’s ‘historic’ space reforms and said that opening up the space sector to private players has resulted in Skyroot and others coming up with such innovations.
The PM said that today in India’s space ecosystem, private sector was emerging with flying colours. Over 300 space startups were giving new hopes to the sector.