On July 18, a seven-story rocket built not by a government but by eight-year-old Hyderabad startup Skyroot Aerospace will rise from the same launchpad that has long belonged to India's state space agency, ISRO. Named Vikram-1 and carrying payloads from multiple clients into Low Earth Orbit, the mission called 'Aagaman'—meaning arrival—signals that a new chapter in Indian spaceflight is not approaching but has begun. What stands on that pad is the product of former ISRO scientists who chose to build something of their own, and of a regulatory environment that finally made room for them to try.