The maiden orbital flight of Skyroot's three-stage solid-fuel Vikram-1, making it the first privately developed Indian rocket to reach orbit. Lifting off from Sriharikota, it delivered customer payloads and experiments to a roughly 450 km low Earth orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 5 kg (est.)
- Flight
- 1st
- Only Vikram-I flight
- Date and time
- 18 July 2026, 06:35 UTC
- Rocket
- Vikram-I
- Builder
- Skyroot Aerospace
- Launch site
- Satish Dhawan Space Centre First Launch Pad, Satish Dhawan Space Centre, India
- Payload
- Test Flight
- International designator
- 2026-164
- Launches in 2026
- 171st of 243
See it in orbit
Space Atlas shows the satellites and rocket stages from this launch in 3D.
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