Various Launch Vehicles of ISRO (Part 1)
INDIAN ROCKETS AND LAUNCH VEHICLES Rohini Sounding Rocket Family Sounding rockets are one or two-stage solid propellant rockets used for probing the upper atmospheric regions and for space research. They also serve as easily affordable platforms to test or prove prototypes of new components or subsystems intended for use in launch vehicles and satellites. […]
Anniversaries abound | The Planetary Society
Take a look back on the last year in pictures. The latest issue of The Planetary Report, our quarterly member magazine, reviews the last year of space exploration through the lens of images. Here you can see one of the featured pictures, a montage of 25 images created with data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory […]
SpaceX to launch O3b mPOWER satellites for SES on Falcon 9 rocket from the Kennedy Space Center – Spaceflight Now
A pair of SES’ O3b mPOWER satellites are encapsulated inside SpaceX Falcon 9 payload fairings ahed of launch. Image: SpaceX via SES Update 4:00 p.m. EST (2100 UTC): SpaceX pushed back the T-0 liftoff time of the Falcon 9 rocket to the end of the Tuesday launch window. SpaceX is preparing for its third Falcon […]
A New Study Suggests How we Could Find Advanced Civilizations that Ran Out of Fusion Fuel
When it comes to our modern society and the many crises we face, there is little doubt that fusion power is the way of the future. The technology not only offers abundant power that could solve the energy crisis, it does so in a clean and sustainable way. At least as long as our supplies […]