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Beyond the Rocket: What Vikram-1’s Orbit Actually Buys India

July 18, 2026 by Abhishek Kumar

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The Eastern Strategist At 12:05 pm on 18 July 2026, a seven-storey rocket built by an eight-year-old Hyderabad company punched through the coast at Sriharikota…

Categories space exploration, Strategic Analysis Tags Defence, DRDO hyperspectral payload, EOS-09 radar imaging satellite, India's defence sector, ISRO's LVM3, optical imaging satellites, Pawan Kumar Chandana, PSLV-C61, Skyroot Aerospace, Sriharikota, synthetic aperture radar, Vikram-1 Leave a comment

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