Riding on Narendra Modi’s space ambitions and the government’s $1.5 billion space budget, India has opened the doors for its space startups to attempt their first orbital launch later this year. That impending milestone may serve the prime minister at the voting booth, but do the country’s private space players have a real shot at catching up to the likes of SpaceX? Bloomberg’s Menaka Doshi speaks with Skyroot Aerospace to find out.