On July 18 at 12:05 IST, Skyroot Aerospace's Vikram-1 thundered off the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota and reached Low Earth Orbit at 453 km in just 16 minutes. The mission, dubbed 'Aagaman', carried six customer payloads — including a 16.9-carat diamond jewellery piece from Cosmos Diamonds and a space debris capture system from Cosmoserve — and made India the third country after the US and China with a private company capable of orbital launches. Co-founder...