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Skyroot's Vikram-1 Reaches Orbit, India's First Private Orbital Rocket Launch Skyroot Aerospace launched Vikram-1 from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota on July 18, 2026, with the upper stage reaching its planned 450-kilometer low Earth orbit 15 minutes after liftoff. The mission, called Aagaman, made Skyroot the first Indian private company to place a rocket into orbit on its maiden attempt, putting India among a small group of nations alongside the United… |
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Smallest DIY ESP32 Brushless Rocket Drone A maker recently documented the development of ESP-BLAST, a custom aerodynamic “rocket drone” designed for high-speed flight. Unlike typical quadcopters with exposed frames, this drone uses a streamlined bullet-shaped body to reduce drag while four small 1104 brushless motors drive 2.5-inch propellers. At the center of the system is an ESP32-S3, which acts as the… |
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DIY Rocket Guidance System That Actually Works If you have ever watched a rocket launch and wondered how it stays steady during its fast ascent, you are not alone. Rocket flying is not just about power, it is about control and precision. That is exactly what ‘BPS.space’ focused on their latest project. Before this project, the team worked on a few other rocket designs that helped them learn a lot about what works, and what doesn’t.… |
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This Student-Built Satellite Turns Into a Drone While Landing Here is something you don’t see every day, a satellite that turns into a drone and guides itself back to the ground, without the help of a parachute. I Build Stuff youtuber recently made this happen for the CanSat competition, and honestly, it is one of those “simple idea, tricky execution” projects that ended up working out surprisingly well. Instead of using a parachute to land, like… |
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AI Meets Rocketry: A Self-Learning Neural Network For Thrust Vector Control For years, people have been using PID controllers to stabilize rockets, but one hobbyist on his YouTube channel Alpha Stellar Rocketry decided to try experimenting the same, but with artificial intelligence. The result? A fully self-training, neural network-based thrust vector control (TVC) system that promises smarter and more efficient stabilization in real time.… |
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Making History: Agnibaan Takes Flight with World's First 3D Printed Rocket Engine Indian space startup AgniKul Cosmos has successfully launched India’s first semi-cryogenic rocket Agnibaan SOrTeD, powered by the world’s first fully 3D-printed engine. Back in 2020, we covered a story on Agnikul building India's first Smallsat Rocket, today the company has launched its first rocket Agnibaan into space. The Agnibaan was launched from India’s… |
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Skyroot Aerospace Advances Indian Space Program with Cutting-Edge 3D printed Cryogenic Rocket Engine Technologies Skyroot Aerospace, a private space startup, has announced the successful test-firing of its second fully 3D-printed cryogenic engine, Dhawan-II, for 200 seconds. The engine, which is more powerful than its predecessor, Dhawan-I, will enhance the payload capacity of Skyroot's second-generation rocket, Vikram-II. The company plans to conduct multiple commercial… |
