Elon Musk Made Space Cheap. Two Indian Scientists Found What SpaceX Still Gets Wrong
On July 18, 2026, a seven-storey rocket lifted off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota. Seventeen minutes later, India had crossed a line it had never crossed before.
The rocket was not built by ISRO. It was built by a Hyderabad startup.
Skyroot Aerospace’s Vikram-1 successfully reached