Naga Bharat Daka is an Indian scientist and space entrepreneur. He is the co-founder of Skyroot Aerospace, a private aerospace manufacturing company founded in 2018; He is also the COO (Chief Operating Officer) of the company. In 2012, he started working at ISRO as an avionics engineer; However, he left ISRO in 2015.
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Naga Bharat Daka was born on Friday, 8 September 1989 (age 33 years; as in 2022). His zodiac sign is Virgo. He did his schooling from Little Angels High School in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh. Later, he studied at Narayana Junior College, Hyderabad. He did a 5-year integrated B.Tech and M.Tech dual degree program from IIT Madras. He did B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering and completed M.Tech. in Microelectronics and VLSI Design in 2012. After completing his studies, he worked as a trainee at Tata Elxsi in Chennai for 3 months.
Physical Appearance
Height (approx): 6′ 0″
Hair Color: Black
Eye colour: black
Family
He belongs to a Hindu family in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India.
parents and siblings
His father’s name is Raghuramireddy Daka and he has one brother.
Naga Bharat Daka with his wife, parents and brother
wife and children
Naga Bharat Daka married Pavani Chawali on 10 December 2016. Pavani Chawli is a manager at Deloitte in Hyderabad. The couple has a son named Ram Tejas.
Naga Bharat Daka with his wife and son
religious viewpoint
According to his social media profile, he believes in secular humanism. Secular humanism is a philosophical ideology that says that humans can be moral and ethical without following any religion.
livelihood
ISRO
In October 2012, he joined ISRO’s sister space research centre, Vikram Sarabhai Space Center (VSSC) in Thiruvananthapuram, India. He worked there as an avionics engineer for more than two years. Later, he left ISRO in April 2015.
Xilinx
In May 2015, he joined Xilinx, where he worked as a senior product applications engineer. They supported Xilinx Video and PCI Express IP solutions. Later, he left Xilinx in August 2018, after working there for more than 3 years.
Skyroot Aerospace
In August 2018, he co-founded Skyroot Aerospace with another ISRO scientist named Pawan Kumar Chandana in Hyderabad, India.
Founders of Skyroot Aerospace, Pawan Kuma Chandana and Naga Bharat Daka
His company manufactures launch vehicles. Naga Bharat Daka handles the operations, avionics and GNC teams at Skyroot Aerospace. Indian rocket scientist Vasudevan Gyan Gandhi, CureFit founders Mukesh Bansal and Ankit Nagor and a few other businessmen helped Pawan and Naga form Skyroot Aerospace. On 20 November 2020, they signed a memorandum of understanding with another aerospace manufacturer in India called Dhruv Space. Skyroot Aerospace is the first Indian startup to sign an agreement with the Department of Space, under which the company can access ISRO’s facilities and expertise, and the company can test its systems and sub-systems of the carrier rocket. On May 2021, Skyroot Aerospace raised $11 million in Series A funding round with contributions from Greenco Group, Solar Industries, WhatsApp Chief Business Officer Neeraj Arora, Myntra and Cult.fit Founder Mukesh Bansal, Sutton Capital, Vedanshu Investments . , even more. On January 27, 2022, they raised $4.5 million in Series B funding with participation from Ram Shriram’s Sherpalo Ventures, who is a founding board member of Google, ex-Google executive Amit Singhal, Vami Capital and others.
Skyroot Aerospace logo
Raman-1
On 30 July 2020, Skyroot Aerospace successfully tested a hypergolic-fueled upper-stage engine named Raman-1. This engine was named after Indian physicist CV Raman. Skyroot was the first private company to test such an engine.
Column-5
On 22 December 2020, Skyroot test-fired Kalam-5, a solid fuel rocket engine. The test took place at a private testing area in Nagpur. The 5 in the name Kalam-5 represents the peak sea level thrust of 5.3 kN. This rocket engine was named after APJ Abdul Kalam.
Kalam-100
On 19 May 2022, Skyroot announced that Vikram-1’s rocket stage, Kalam-100, had successfully completed full duration test-firing. Vikram-1’s third stage, Kalam-100, produces a peak vacuum thrust of 100 kN (or ~10 tonnes) and has a burn time of 108 seconds. High-strength carbon fiber structure, solid fuel, innovative thermal protection system and carbon ablative nozzle were used to manufacture the Kalam-100 rocket stage. In November 2022, the media described it as the largest rocket to be designed, built and designed by a private firm and the best rocket stage of this size.
An image of the Kalam-100 rocket stage
Dhawan-1
On 25 September 2020, an upper stage cryogenic engine named Dhawan-1 was unveiled, which will be used to power heavy-lift systems including the small-lift launch vehicle Vikram-II. It was named after Indian mathematician and aerospace engineer Satish Dhawan. It is India’s first cryogenic engine to use liquefied natural gas (LNG) as fuel as this fuel is clean, reusable and suitable for long-duration space missions. The Dhawan-1 is completely built using superalloy with 3D printing with regenerative cooling. On 25 November 2021, Dhawan-1 was successfully test fired using liquefied natural gas (LNG) and liquid oxygen (LOX). It was tested at a test site provided by Solar Industries, which has also invested in Skyroot Aerospace.
We are happy to announce that in a major milestone, we have successfully test fired India’s first privately built fully cryogenic engine ‘Dhawan-1’.
100% 3D-Printed, 100% Made in India, Fuel of the Future-LNG
Watch the footage: https://t.co/zffy4ti2Lj#methalox pic.twitter.com/ktKGAs9o7n
– Skyroot Aerospace (@SkyrootA) 25 November 2021
Vikram
Vikram is a series of small-lift launch vehicles. The series was named after Vikram Sarabhai, the Indian physicist and astronomer who founded ISRO. In February 2021, Skyroot Aerospace collaborated with Bellatrix Aerospace to use Bellatrix’s orbital transfer vehicle with Vikram series carrier rockets. Vikram-S was the first carrier rocket of this series, which was expected to be launched between 15 and 19 November 2022. In an interview, while talking about the mission of launching Vikram-S rocket into space, he said,
The Vikram-S rocket is a single-stage sub-orbital launch vehicle that will carry three customer payloads and help test and verify most of the technologies in the Vikram series of space launch vehicles.
While India’s first private rocket, Vikram-S, is set to launch from Sriharikota with a revised window between 15 and 19 November 2022, know about its propulsion system – Kalam 80, which was successfully test fired on 15 March 2022 Went. stay tuned.#Start #OpeningSpaceForAll pic.twitter.com/N2auqfx18W
– Skyroot Aerospace (@SkyrootA) 13 November 2022
On 18 November 2022, Skyroot Aerospace launched Vikram-S, the first private rocket to be launched in India.
Team Skyroot dedicates today’s historic success of India’s first private rocket launch to the space reforms brought about by the vision of the Honorable Prime Minister. @Narendra Modi Yes.
we thank @ISRO And @INSPACeIND For their invaluable support towards this historical milestone.#Start pic.twitter.com/sbpbcI1s0T
– Skyroot Aerospace (@SkyrootA) 18 November 2022
Vikram I is the second rocket in the series with a 290 kg SSPO (Sun Synchronous Polar Orbit) and a 480 kg LEO (Low Earth Orbit). The third launch vehicle in the series is Vikram II with a 400 kg SSPO and 595 kg LEO. Vikram III is the fourth carrier to be launched with a SSPO of 560 kg and LEO of 815 kg.
An image of Vikram I, Vikram II and Vikram III
award
- Skyroot Aerospace wins National Startup Award from Government of India in 2020
- Skyroot Aerospace wins Pride of Telangana- Startup Achiever Award in 2021
Skyroot Aerospace wins Pride of Telangana- Startup Achiever Award in 2021
- Skyroot Aerospace team won the Aegis Graham Bell Award for Jury Choice Award under Innovation category for the year 2020 in 2021.
- Skyroot Aerospace wins Best Innovator Award at Telangana State Industry Awards 2021
Naga Bharat Daka and Pawan Kumar Chandana received the Best Innovator Award at the Telangana State Industry Awards 2021
- Skyroot Aerospace won the National Award for Technology Startup for cryogenic, liquid and solid propulsion technologies in 2022 by the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India.
Skyroot Aerospace wins National Award for Technology Startup in 2022
Facts/General Knowledge
- In September 2021, Skyroot Aerospace was ranked 7th among the top 25 emerging companies in LinkedIn’s Top Startups in India 2021 list.
Skyroot Aerospace Team
- The mission statement of Skyroot Aerospace is –
Space-efficient, on-demand and reliable rides. At Skyroot, we’re on a mission to open space to everyone, pushing the boundaries of today’s technology. We are working towards a future where space will become a part of our lives, and such a change will transform mankind like never before.
- He is a supporter of Lok Satta political party.
- He is proficient in multiple technologies and concepts including Verilog, Matlab, VHDL, C Language, Computational Electronics and others.
- He has experience working in the semiconductor industry with proficiency in FPGAs, which are used across aerospace and defense applications.
- In 2007, he scored 165 AIR (All India Rank) in the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE).
- In 2007, he stood 91st in the All India Engineering Entrance Examination (AIEEE).
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