• Hyderabad-based space startup Skyroot Aerospace successfully tested a solid fuel-based engine, Kalam-100 Engine that would be used in the third stage of the launch vehicle called Vikram 1.

Key points:

• The company is developing a series of three small satellite launch vehicles called Vikram 1, Vikram 2, and Vikram 3.
• The Vikram 1 rocket will use four fuel-based stages which includes 3 solid fuel and one 1 liquid fuel stages for the launch.
• Launch vehicle contains four stages, in which the third stage contains a solid fuel-based engine called Kalam-100 Engine, named after Dr APJ Abdul Kalam.
• Kalam-100 engine is the largest rocket stage ever designed, manufactured, and tested completely in the Indian private sector.
• In 2021, Skyroot successfully demonstrated the country’s first privately developed cryogenic engine, Dhawan-1, which will be the upper stage in the Vikram-2 rocket.