India's first private orbital launch lifted off from Sriharikota

Background

Vikram-I, a small satellite launcher developed by the Indian space start-up Skyroot Aerospace, lifted off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre of ISRO at Sriharikota, the first time a private Indian company has undertaken an orbital launch of a rocket from Indian soil.
Vikram-I carried multiple payloads, of which two satellites, SCOPE and Grahaa, were injected into a Low Earth Orbit; the remaining payloads on the upper stage are for in-orbit experiments.
Skyroot had earlier conducted a sub-orbital launch of a test rocket, Vikram-S, from Sriharikota, and Vikram-I was then developed as a 4-stage rocket with 3 solid stages and a liquid stage.
ISRO provided access to the solid motor casting and static test facilities at SDSC, Sriharikota, where the first stage solid motor was cast and tested and the second stage motor validated; the liquid engine of the upper stage, RAMAN-I, was tested at the LPSC test facility.
The vehicle was integrated on the First Launch Pad, and IN-SPACe, the regulation and promotion agency for space activities, established the mechanism for Non-Governmental Entities to access ISRO's facilities.