Skyroot Aerospace test fires India’s first private cryogenic rocket engine
- ByStartupStory | November 25, 2021
The Hyderabad-based space technology startup, has test fired India’s first privately developed fully cryogenic rocket engine, successfully demonstrating the technology that will power the upper stages of its upcoming Vikram-2 orbital launch vehicle.
Cryogenic engines are highly efficient rocket propulsion systems that use propellants at cryogenic temperatures (less than -150° Celsius). Fully cryogenic engines are suitable for the upper stages of a rocket. They have a higher specific impulse that enhances the payload carrying capability. This technology has been demonstrated only by very few countries.
Hyderabad-based company has named its cryogenic engine- ‘Dhawan-1’ in honour of eminent Indian Rocket scientist Dr Satish Dhawan who played an instrumental role in the development of the Indian Space Programme. This test demonstrates the propulsion technology in the upper stage of Skyroot’s orbital vehicle Vikram-2.
According to the company, this engine has a vacuum thrust of around 1.5 kilonewton (k)N and demonstrates upper stage technology of the firm’s orbital vehicle Vikram-2.
The mobile test stand was indigenously developed by Skyroot and test firing was conducted in one of its kind facility of Solar Industries at Nagpur, the company said.
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