🚀 Announcing Vikram-1 Test Flight-1: Mission Aagaman, India’s first private orbital rocket launch.
📍 Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota
🛰️ 450 km, 60 degree inclination, Low Earth Orbit
📅 Launch Window: July 12 – August 4, 2026
Vehicle is now fully stacked at India’s historic First Launch Pad (FLP).
The countdown to a new chapter in Indian spaceflight begins.
One rocket, a billion believers. Thank you ISRO & INSPACe for enabling this..
#Vikram1 #MissionAagaman
Indian scientists just made history.
Researchers from IIT Madras and IISc Bengaluru just pulled off something impossible.
They've created the world's "first carbon-free ferrocene".
This means we can finally build the next generation of incredibly durable tech.
Let me explain.
See, ferrocene is this wild organometallic molecule - where an iron atom is perfectly sandwiched between two carbon rings.
But it’s insanely stable.
Which is why it is already used in rocket fuels, car gasoline additives, long-life batteries, and even cancer medicines.
And for the last 75 years, everyone thought it was impossible to build the same stable structure without using carbon.
But this team of Indian scientists proved everyone wrong.
They created the same perfect sandwich structure - by swapping iron for osmium and carbon rings for boron rings.
And what they got was the world's first carbon-free ferrocene - which is so much stronger than the carbon bonds.
By doing so - they've opened up a whole new era of chemistry. And we have no idea how many amazing things we might discover.
But to think all of this started in India is truly amazing.
Kudos to everyone on this team: Sundargopal Ghosh, Stutee Mohapatra, Suvam Saha, Urvashi Gupta, Deepak Patel - from IIT Madras, Gaurav Joshi and Eluvathingal D. Jemmis - from IISc Bengaluru.