Skyroot Aerospace will be based in Telangana: KTR

Hyderabad: Telangana Industries and Commerce Minister K T Rama Rao expressed happiness that India's first ever integrated rocket design, manufacturing and testing facility will be based in Telangana, which will be a facility by Skyroot Aerospace.

KTR said that he promised the startup's co-founders Pawan Chandana and Bharath Daka that they would be designing, manufacturing and testing the rockets in the State.

The Minister participated as a Guest of Honour at a programme organised at T-Hub on Friday to celebrate Skyroot Aerospace's successful launch of Vikram-S rocket. The Hyderabad based startup, incubated at T-Hub, launched India's first private rocket on November 18, 2022.

Congratulating the team which endured hardships, he expressed pride and happiness that a spacetech company from Hyderabad broke all the barriers. KTR said that only a few companies across the world aced rocket science and achieved success in the first go and added that the launch was truly a historic moment.