The world’s first hydrogen-powered city train indigenously developed by China rolled off the production line in Chengdu of Sichuan Province on Wednesday. The zero-carbon train, with a maximum speed of 160 km/h, can run 600 km on one fueling.
Wernher von Braun A German, he was the forerunner of rocket/(v2) research in Nazi Germany. Later, he migrated to the United States and became the Head of Rocket and Space Technology there. Rather than an aerospace engineer, he is called a space architect because the Saturn V rocket that brought man to the moon is…
Published by Lockheed Martin, maker of the Orion Capsule. Orion spacecraft captures live view of Earth and moon (video)
The European Space Agency’s spacecraft that carried Philae, the first spacecraft to land on a comet. On March 2, 2004, Rosetta was launched by an Ariane 5 rocket from Kourou, French Guiana, on a 10-year mission to comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Rosetta’s 654-million-km journey entered orbit around the comet on August 6, 2014, and then landed the…
Percy returned to Mars in July 2020. After nearly a year of exploration, yesterday (21 Dec 2022) Percy began one of his main missions, sample deposition. Many holes were dug on the surface of Mars and soil, rock dust, etc. were collected from them in small titanium tubes, sealed and deposited in various places on…
1) Probe comes down by running engine in opposite direction to orbital motion and reducing horizontal speed. 2) Orientation of probe is controlled according to descent.3) Controls downward and lateral speed.4) Hover after reaching a certain height after reducing speeds. 5) Hover and take pictures of the lunar surface below and process the image to…
Oppenheimer is the next film of Christopher Nolan who directed hit films like Interstellar. The movie that fans all over the world are waiting for. A few words about Oppenheimer. But it does not go into the interior of the movie.He was an American theoretical physicist with German roots and was also a physics teacher…
UAE’s ‘Rashid’ rover, the Arab world’s first lunar probe, sent its first message after launch. UAE Vice President and Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum said that the first message was sent to the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Center in Khawaneej, the UAE space center. It was informed through…
The whole world is waiting for NASA’s Orion spacecraft to return to Earth. Artemis and Orion spacecraft are a project that took many years and spent billions. The Orion probe, which went all the way to the moon and took pictures, brought a lot of valuable data back to Earth. It is expected to land…
The first “blow down” test of the trisonic wind tunnel, much awaited by the Indian scientific community, took place on 8 December 2022 at the Vikram Sarabhai Space Center in Thiruvananthapuram. Trisonic wind tunnels can be used to test the aerodynamic design of rockets and re-entry spacecraft, and to evaluate the load distribution, pressure, acoustic…
