India Joins China, US in Commercial Space Race with Skyroot Launch India's entry into the exclusive club of private space companies that have successfully launched payloads into orbit is a significant milestone.
The Skyroot Aerospace launch, which carried customer payloads and experiments on its maiden orbital mission, marks India's transition from being solely dependent on its state run Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) to becoming a major player in the global space industry.
The comparison with SpaceX's Falcon 1 is apt, not just because of the similarity in achievement but also in context.