'Still Feels Like A Dream': Skyroot CEO On Historic Vikram-1 Success
In an exclusive conversation with NDTV, Skyroot Aerospace Co-founder and CEO Pawan Kumar Chandana reflects on the historic success of Vikram-1, which made India only the third country where a private company has successfully placed a satellite in orbit. Chandana credits Skyroot's young team-whose average age is just 28-for achieving what few space companies have managed on a maiden mission, describing the launch as a "textbook success" that exceeded industry expectations. From leaving a secure ISRO career to building India's first private space unicorn, he speaks about risk-taking, innovation, perseverance, and his vision of making India a global space-launch powerhouse, with Skyroot now targeting more launches and eventually scaling up to one launch every month.
