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Space Fun Is Getting Bigger! 🚀🌍

India is building more rockets and satellites with new companies. 🚀

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Key Points

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Space business value now: about eight billion United States dollars.

Goal for 2030: about forty‑to‑forty‑five billion United States dollars.

Over four hundred private space start‑up companies in India.

First private rocket named Vikram‑1 can lift 350 kilograms to low Earth orbit.

Future plans include the Gaganyaan astronaut mission and a lunar research station.

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The space business hopes to grow from eight billion to about forty‑five billion United States dollars by 2030.

Scientists plan a Moon landing and a mission that will send Indian astronauts into space.

India works together with many other countries on space projects.

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8 words

rocket

a vehicle that flies into space using powerful engines

satellite

a machine that circles the Earth or another planet and sends information back

low Earth orbit

a path close to Earth where satellites travel

private

run by companies or people, not the government

launch vehicle

the rocket that carries a satellite or spacecraft into space

foreign direct investment

money from other countries used to help build projects

microgravity

very weak pull of gravity, like in space, where things float

lunar

relating to the Moon

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