In 2018, Pawan Kumar Chandana and Naga Bharath Daka founded Skyroot, which built Vikram-S, India’s first privately developed rocket, which was launched by ISRO from Sriharikota.
Sky is the limit
Published by: Team GI Youth
Published on 24, Nov 2022
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