Indigenous battery clears ultimate test in space

Hyderabad-based TakeMe2Space has announced that its PowerBank-50 satellite battery pack is now officially space proven, following its successful debut aboard Skyroot Aerospace’s Vikram-1 rocket during Mission Aagaman, launched from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota, on July 18.The mission marked a major milestone for India’s private space sector, with Vikram-1 becoming the country’s first privately developed rocket to reach orbit. The achievement places India among only three nations, alongside the United States and China, where a private company has demonstrated orbital launch capability.A PowerBank-50 unit powered Cosmoserve Space’s experimental payload aboard the rocket’s Orbital Adjustment Module (OAM) at an altitude of 450 km. The battery performed as designed throughout lau