Space
Skyroot Aerospace test fires 3D printed cryogenic engine
- Skyroot Aerospace test fires 3D printed cryogenic engine
- Skyroot Aerospace, a private rocket builder, achieved a major milestone by successfully test-firing an advanced fully 3D-printed cryogenic engine for a record 200 seconds.
- The endurance test of ‘Dhawan-II’ was carried out at Solar Industries propulsion test facility in Nagpur, Maharashtra, using indigenously developed mobile cryogenic engine test pad.
- This achievement follows the November 2022 launch of Vikram-S, which made the firm the first Indian private company to send a rocket into space.
