Watch: Skyroot Aerospace Successfully Test-Fires India's First Privately Built Fully Cryogenic Engine 'Dhawan-1'

Hyderabad-based Skyroot Aerospace on Thursday (25 November) announced that it has successfully tested India's first privately built fully cryogenic engine 'Dhawan-1'.

The engine, which has been named in honour of eminent Indian Rocket scientist Dr Satish Dhawan, uses Liquid Natural Gas (more than 90 per cent Methane) and Liquid Oxygen cryogenic propellants, which are high performance, low-cost, and green.

The mobile test stand was indigenously developed by Skyroot and test firing was conducted in one of its kind facility of Solar Industries at Nagpur, the company said.

The cryogenic engines are highly efficient rocket propulsion systems that use propellants at cryogenic temperatures (less than minus 150 degree Celsius).