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Hyderabad’s
own ‘Skyroot Aerospace’ has revealed its cryogenic rocket engine which is set to be used in ‘Vikram-2’ launch
vehicle. The engine is named as ‘Dhawan-I’ named after Indian rocket scientist,
‘Satish Dhawan.’ Skyroot Aerospace is based in Hyderabad and was founded in
2018 by a group of former Indian Space Research Organization employees. Skyroot
is privately owned thus ‘Dhawan-I’ becoming the first local and private cryogenic
rocket engine in India.
Pawan Chandana,
CEO of Skyroot has told that the company is in the process of building several
engines for different thrust levels. The engines run on Liquefied Natural Gas
and Liquefied Oxygen. The company is also now building a testing facility to
test these engines. Skyroot had recently tested an upper stage rocket called. ‘Raman’
after the famed Nobel winning physician CV Raman. Skyroot is the first private
company in India to test fire an upper stage rocket.
