Despite Skyroot feat, India has world’s costliest rocket launches
The article, written by economists Alessio Terzi of University of Cambridge, England, and Francesco Nicoli of Politecnico Institute of Turin, Italy, in the September edition of the acclaimed peer-reviewed academic journal Economics Letters, said that at the end of calendar year 2025, the cost of launching a satellite from India was $13,302 ( ₹12.7 lakh) per kilogram (kg) aboard rockets available in the country. This is more than four times the US figure of $3,225 ( ₹3.1 lakh), the lowest among the markets studied.
