India joined an elite club this week when Skyroot Aerospace successfully launched Vikram-1, the country's first privately developed orbital rocket, from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota. ISRO Chairman V Narayanan hailed the mission — carried out by a team averaging just 28 years old — as proof that India's private space sector has matured from policy to payload, with over 1,000 people backed by nearly 400 suppliers....