Indian private rocket company Skyroot Aerospace‘s Vikram-1 reached orbit on July 18 powered in part by a cluster of 3D printed engines, a detail that turns India’s first private orbital launch into a milestone for additive manufacturing as much as for spaceflight. The rocket’s fourth stage, a liquid-propellant Orbital Adjustment Module, ran on Raman-1 engines…
Indian private rocket company Skyroot Aerospace‘s Vikram-1 reached orbit on July 18 powered in part by a cluster of 3D printed engines, a detail that turns India’s first private orbital launch into a milestone for additive manufacturing as much as for spaceflight. The rocket’s fourth stage, a liquid-propellant Orbital Adjustment Module, ran on Raman-1 engines…