Skyroot Aerospace will create history on July 18 if it successfully places a payload into orbit using a launch vehicle designed and developed in-house, becoming the first private company from India to do so. The Hyderabad-based startup will attempt to launch Vikram-1, an orbital-class rocket, which will carry the payload. The launch comes nearly four years after Skyroot’s Vikram-S became the first privately built rocket to reach space from