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After bad weather, liquid oxygen leak stalls Shubhanshu Shukla-piloted Axiom-4 lift-off – The Times of India

CAPE CANAVERAL (FLORIDA): Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla’s lift-off to Indian space history will have to wait. As D-Day dawned in India, Elon Musk-owned SpaceX announced that the Axiom-4 launch had been indefinitely deferred, citing a LOX (liquid oxygen) leak in the Falcon-9 rocket that engineers were unable to troubleshoot immediately.Axiom-4 was to start its journey…

Skyroot successfully test fires 3rd stage of Vikram-1 rocket – The Times of India

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HYDERABAD: Spacetech startup Skyroot Aerospace, which is gearing up to send India’s first private commercial space launch vehicle, Vikram-1, into lower earth orbit, successfully tested the third stage of the rocket.“The third stage of our Vikram-1 launch vehicle, Kalam-100, roared to life for over 102 seconds – equipped with an advanced flex nozzle for precise…