INDIA'S FIRST PRIVATELY-DEVELOPED ROCKET REACHES ORBIT ON DRAMATIC DEBUT LAUNCH

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Skyroot Aerospace's Vikram-1 rocket, India's first fully commercial satellite launcher, launched into a 280-mile-high orbit from an island spaceport in the Bay of Bengal on Saturday. The launch was delayed for more than half an hour to resolve a last-minute technical problem, but the flight was deemed a grand success. The Vikram-1 is India's first private orbital rocket to reach orbit on its very first attempt. A second Vikram-1 launch could happen before the end of the year.