year or so we are excited about contributing to the programme in the future says dhruva space founder and ceo sanjay nekkantiboth skyroot and dhruva claim their successful maiden missions are garnering a lot of investor and customer interest from india and abroad and they are counting on collaborations with isro which mentored them to realise their human spaceflight dreamsskyroots chandana says their reusable launch vehicles will be built using technology similar to their vikram series but since its a humongous project they are eyeing a good publicprivate partnership ppp what we are looking for is a good ppp like the one that isro is taking up with gaganyaan we hope to help out in a joint programme he adds that isros experience with gaganyaan will help private players like themnekkanti says dhruva could build some of the critical elements related to the human spaceflight programme such as large solar arrays for satellites that can also be utilised in human spaceflights around crew capsules or space stations it can also contribute towards the communication requirements of these missions as it has developed ground stations he addsabhay egoor cofounder and cto dhruva space says sensors that go into spacecraft inflatables as well as astrobiology are other areas where dhruva space is partnering with some educational institutions and companies to come up with combined proposalsneedless to say both startups are gearing up for their next space odyssey skyroots scheduled to launch its first commercial rocket vikram1 in october 2023 followed by vikram2 in mid2024 and vikram3 by 2024end it is already in parleys with the telangana government for acquiring or leasing a huge parcel of land to set up its integrated rocket development manufacturing and testing facilitiesover the next two years or so skyroot which started out with a 15member team from a nondescript facility in hyderabads kondapur area is looking to raise 150200 million to fuel the next phase of its expansion and aspirations chandana saysdhruva which has raised 8 million so far is also in talks with the telangana government as it looks to scale up operations we are at an inflexion point in the next 1218 months we want to set up a large integrated facility which will require more funds we are looking at raising 2025 million a part of which will be utilised towards the new facility says nekkanti while refusing to divulge the timeline of the fundraise or other details