Brazilian company Concert Technologies and India’s Skyroot Aerospace have signed a two-year memorandum to study a launcher for payloads above 100 kg. The agreement opens a technical and commercial assessment phase and does not commit the companies to build or sell a rocket.
The proposed vehicle would sit between Brazil’s MLBR project, designed to carry up to 40 kg to low Earth orbit, and higher-capacity vehicles in Skyroot’s Vikram programme. The partners will assess how technologies from the two countries could be combined for orbital missions, including launches to equatorial orbits.
The companies signed the memorandum on October 7 at the 2026 International Astronautical Congress in Antalya. Over the two-year period, they plan to define technical parameters and a commercial model and prepare the project framework.
CNN Brasil reported that development, supply, investment and commercialisation would be covered by later agreements after the current phase. The proposed capacity of more than 100 kg therefore remains part of a concept under study.
Brazilian agency Finep funds development of the MLBR, while the Brazilian Space Agency provides technical oversight. Neither agency was named as a party to the Concert-Skyroot memorandum.