“India's first privately built orbital rocket took its maiden flight Saturday, its company said, marking a significant step for the South Asian giant as it eyes a bigger slice of the global space economy.

The Vikram-1 rocket, built by Skyroot Aerospace and designed to carry small satellites into low Earth orbit, took off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota amid loud cheers.”

From Phys.org.