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Mission is a success! Vikram-1 put all payloads in orbit!
Getting to orbit on the first-ever test flight is not a small feat. This is a huge achievement for Skyroot Aerospace!
Per what I've heard, they've got 2 more Vikram rockets in production. Hope they get to their initially desired cadence of one launch every month!
Doing this on first try is not normal feat. Looking into their designs, they built a lot of redundancies.
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Absolutely loved the flash of the initial ignition, I felt such relief when it cleared the tower itself.... I was worried earlier when a hold was placed on the launch for a while (wondering what the issue was).
Then the onboard cam footage, the much younger teams and new faces in mission control, their cheering/excitement etc....it was all new great feeling.
I didn't expect things to go this perfectly, but they did. It makes sense though given level of detailed efforts they put in that has been posted in here already...they didn't rush.
Hope it gives great impetus to agnikul mission and their booster recovery objective.
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