P Saraniya: From dreaming about oceans in Port Blair to building rockets for Agnikul

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Port Blair to being at the helm of building rockets to put satellites in orbit, it has been a formidable learning curve for Saraniya Periaswamy, a young engineer at the Chennai-based space start-up Agnikul Cosmos. The 30-year-old Saraniya is in charge of development of the 3-D printed launch vehicle — Agnibaan Sub-Orbital Technology Demonstrator (SOrTeD) — that had its first flight on May 30, overcoming a series of challenges over more than a two-month period.

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The launch of Agnibaan-SOrTeD was first scheduled on March 22, but had to be put on hold on May 20 after «certain minor observations from the full countdown rehearsals».
«Whenever a launch is held, there is a lot of external pressure. Everyone is looking forward to the launch and if you are unable to pull it through, it is not like you are failing somewhere. But, it becomes a little difficult at that time,» Saraniya told PTI on the sidelines of the India Space Congress organised by SIA-India here.

Saraniya did her schooling and graduation in Port Blair, the capital of Andaman and Nicobar Islands, and the place of her birth. She studied civil engineering at the Dr B R Ambedkar Institute of Technology, Port Blair and did her masters in ocean technology from IIT-Madras.

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Agnikul Cosmos took shape at