Skyroot Aerospace: 1st Indian Private company to Test-Fire Full solid propulsion Rocket Stage

 

Skyroot Aerospace: 1^st Indian Private company to Test-Fire Full solid propulsion Rocket Stage

 

 

Skyroot Aerospace recently became the first private company in India to test-fire a full solid propulsion rocket stage. Skyroot Aerospace successfully test-fired “Kalam-5”, a solid propulsion rocket stage.

Key points

·        The propulsion stage rocket was designed, developed, and tested by the company.

·        Kalam-5 is built with an advanced carbon composition structure in a fully automated process.

·        The solid propulsion rocket stage is uses9 different manufacturing process,15 different advanced materials and has zero moving parts.

·        The successful test firing of kalam-5 has given confidence to the company that is under construction.

·        The company is targeting to lunch by December 2021 with the help of ISRO.

·        KALAM-5 is a demonstrator solid rocket propulsion stage that has the same materials, propellant, and interfaces as the three solid propulsion stage of Vikram-1 launch vehicle

·        KALAM-5 is designed to take 66 atmospheres of combustion pressure and 30000C temperature and gives a peak sea-level thrust of 5.3kN.

Skyroot Aerospace

skyroot is also known as the spaceX of india.  It is private aerospace manufacture of the country and is a commercial lunch service provider based in Hyderabad. The company was funded in the year 2018 and first came to the spotlight after testing Raman, An upper-stage rocket engine in august 2020.

The company is planning and working towards launching its own service of  Vikram small lift launch vehicles.