New Delhi: Hyderabad-based Abyom, a New Space startup incubated by BITS Pilani aims to demonstrate vertical takeoff vertical landing (VTVL) capabilities in 2026. The automated demonstrator will be loaded with a sophisticated suite of redundant sensors that allows for realtime correction, and validates the descent systems. The demonstrator reduces the risks for developing reusable launch vehicles. Abyom is starting off small, with achievable steps in a clear roadmap that increases in ambition in a planned manner, and is starting with the development of a reusable sounding rocket. This is the type of rocket that can hop between planets.

Abyom has set up its own test facility with a plug-and-play architecture, that is available as a service. The injector and igniter developed for the rocket

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