India's space sector saw two seemingly unrelated but equally significant developments last week. Hyderabad-based Skyroot Aerospace launched Vikram-1, the country's first privately developed rocket, while around 100 scientists resigned from Isro, GoI's space agency.
The first is a big positive. India is only the third country with a private sector capable of making a rocket that can transport satellites into orbit. The second is also a positive, notwithstanding the short-term blow to Isro. That the two events overlapped may be a coincidence. But they are not unrelated.
