Agnikul ropes in former ISRO chairman Somanath ahead of Mission 02

Chennai-headquartered Agnikul Cosmos, a private launch vehicle company has onboarded Somanath. S, former chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), as an Observer in its Board of Directors. The appointment comes as Agnikul prepares for Mission 02, a flight that will attempt, for the first time on Indian soil, the recovery of an orbital-class rocket booster and the extension of a rocket’s upper stage into an on-orbit platform.