Recently, a slender carbon-composite rocket lifted off from the first launch pad at Sriharikota and did something no Indian launch vehicle has done in the country’s six-decade space history: It reached orbit without a single component of it having been built by the government. Skyroot Aerospace’s Vikram-1, on a maiden flight aptly named Mission Aagaman, that is, arrival, deployed its payloads into an orbit of roughly 450 kilometres, and in doing so made India only the third country, after the US and China, whose private sector has independently demonstrated orbital launch capability.Vikram-1's launch. (@narendramodi/X via PTI)It is worth pausing on…