Big Success of Skyroot

          

A very proud full moment for all Indian, our Hyderabad based private space technology startup Skyroot Aerospace has tested successfully India’s first privately developed fully cryogenic rocket engine named Dhawan 1 on 25 Nov,2021. The organization dedicated this to our beloved Sir Satish Dhawan, one of the major architects of India's space programme. 

Firstly we should know about the cryogenic engine. So cryogenic engines are a type of rocket engine, of which main fuel supplies are in  liquefied form of gasses at temperatures as low as -150 degree Celsius. Main reason why they are using because, with this highly efficient technique, rockets can carry heavier payloads. Isro's heaviest launch vehicles – GSLV and GSLV Mk III – also uses cryogenic fuel in the upper stage of the launch vehicle though this are very efficient. Pawan Kumar Chandana, co-founder and CEO of Skyroot clarified with their 20 seconds of test period, that they will use green and ecofriendly fuel, Liquid Natural Gas(LNG) and Liquid Oxygen (LOX) as propellants which are high in performance and low in cost. At 2023 Skyroot will launch it with Vikram 2 launch vehicle.

Once India has not any cryogenic engines, so russia was ready to share this with us but in the pressure of US they faced back. After that ISRO made it indigenously and used it in GSLV in 2001.Now only six countries have this technology including the US, China, Russia, France, Japan, and India and two private space companies – American Blue Origin and European Arianespace – have developed cryogenic engines. Now we Indians can also proud on our these efficient private organizations along with ISRO.