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VELLON SPACE PRIVATE LIMITED

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VELLON SPACE PRIVATE LIMITED Vellon Space Private Limited (VSPL) is India's first commercial launch vehicle company working on a series of launch vehicles based on high altitude launch platforms for pico, nano, and microsatellites up to 25 kg. It is an Indian commercial small satellite launch company working on end-to-end space launch and transportation activity. The company was founded in 2019 in Madurai. Vellon Space provides a dedicated solution for the new launch era with small traditional and conventional series of vehicles -Rudra. It also provides services for precious payload deployment missions and academic payload missions on demand. Its wordmark logo is created using ‘V’ as a rocket seated at a launchpad on fire; ‘o’ as earth with orbitals and the whole logo is coloured with dark to light tones of sky.

PANDYA DYNASTY

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PANDYA DYNASTY The  Pandya Dynasty, also referred to as the Pandyas of Madurai, was an  ancient Tamil dynasty of South India , and among the three great kingdoms of  Tamizhagam , the other two being the Cholas  and the Cheras.  Existing since at least the 4th to 3rd centuries BCE, the dynasty passed through two periods of imperial dominance, the 6th to 10th centuries CE and under the 'Later Pandyas' (13th to 14th centuries CE). The Pandyas ruled extensive territories, at times including regions of present-day  South India and and northern  Sri Lanka  through vassal states subject to  Madurai . The Pandyas entered their golden age under Maravarman I and Jatavarman Sundara Pandya I (13th century). Some early efforts by Maravarman I to expand into the ancient Chola country were effectively checked by the Hoysalas. Pandya Nadu was home to a number of renowned temples, including the Meenakshi Temple in Madurai. Epic poem Silappatikaram mentions that the emblem of the Pandyas was th

CHERA DYNASTY

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CHERA DYNASTY The  Chera Dynasty was one of the Tamil Dynasties in and before the  Sangam period  history of the state of  Kerala  and the  Kongu Nadu  region of Western  Tamil Nadu  in southern India. Together with the Tamil dynasties of  Cholas of Uraiyur (Tiruchirappalli)  and the  Pandyas of Madurai , the early Cheras were known as one of the  three major powers (muvendar)  of ancient  Tamizhagam i n the early centuries of the Common Era. Bow and arrow is the symbol of Chera dynasty and this is found in many of the archaeological findings and literary records. Nedum Cheralathan was a Chera ruler of the early historic south India, contemporary to the Chola ruler Perunarkilli. He is the second known Chera ruler from the early Tamil literature, and is praised in the Second Ten of Pathitruppaththu. He patronized Jainism and Buddhism.   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chera_dynasty https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Chera_Dynasty By Pepper Black - Own work, CC BY 3.0, Wiki