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Agnikul aims to launch 100 rockets a year by 2030. They have a patent to design + manufacture single-piece rocket engines in the US and India. Nobody else can do it. Their booster, Agnite, is printed as a single component in one go. It's the largest such engine in the world to ever be hot-fired. This engine, along with their smaller Agnilet (which powered the Agnibaan SOrTeD suborbital test flight), is what will enable Agnikul (@AgnikulCosmos) to achieve their target of 100 Agnibaan orbital flights per year by 2030 (1.92 per week), with a lifespan of 25 flights per reusable vehicle. In this video (which spans their facilities at the IIT Madras Discovery Campus and the IIT Madras Research Park), Agnikul invited us to experience: - A chat with Srinath Ravichandran and Moin SPM - ⁠How they're testing engines Agnilet and Agnite - Their embedded systems and software teams - An enormous half-scale model of Agnibaan - Their metal 3D printing process Here’s what it looks like inside of India’s reusable launch vehicle leader, Agnikul Cosmos:

Space is full of cancer tanks. Roughly half of all active satellites in space with propulsion use a hydrazine-family fuel (barring Starlink, which uses Hall-effect thrusters). Hydrazine is extremely carcinogenic, which is why an Indian company, Manastu Space (@ManastuSpace) is on a mission to replace it with something safer. Their proprietary hydrogen peroxide-alcohol propellant, MS289, is a green fuel engineered for high reliability. Alongside MS289, they've designed a family of cutting-edge propulsion systems: - GP-LAM (TRL 5) for launch vehicle upper stages - Sharanga (TRL 7) for 3U to 10U satellites - I-Booster (TRL 7) for 100 to 500 kg satellites - Vyom 2U (TRL 8) for 5U to 24U satellites We visited Manastu's manufacturing and R&D facility in Navi Mumbai to explore these systems and see how they're building the future of green space propulsion right here in India.