India's thesis that private industry, not just ISRO, can drive the country's space ambitions has suddenly moved from PowerPoint to launch pad — and the data is now arriving in three dimensions at once.

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The week delivered three signals that are hard to dismiss. Skyroot Aerospace stacked the first stage of its Vikram-I rocket at ISRO's First Launch Pad in Sriharikota — the same pad that launched Chandrayaan and Mangalyaan. This is the first time a privately...