Archive For November, 2018
China’s indigenously designed and built amphibious aircraft AG600, touted as the world’s largest, successfully carried out its first take-off and landing tests. The aircraft, developed and built by the state-owned aircraft firm Aviation Industry Corporation of China, took off and later landed on the water in Hubei province’s Jingmen, state-run China Daily reported. The seaplane […]
India’s first interplanetary mission, the Mars Orbiter Mission or the ‘Mangalyaan’, which had a launch life of six months, completed four years in orbit on 24 SeptemberLaunched on 5 November 2013, the Mars Orbiter Mission, India’s pioneering interplanetary mission to outer space, inserted the satellite into Mars’s orbit during its first attempt on 24 September […]
Megha-Tropiques satellite was built by ISRO and CNES as a Joint Venture. The satellite is meant to study water cycle and energy exchanges in tropical region for weather prediction and climate research. Megha-Tropiques was launched on 12th October 2011 from SDSC, Shriharikota. The satellite has successfully completed seven years of on-orbit observations with four Science […]
The upper stage of GSLV MK-III vehicle is powered by Cryogenic Engine (CE)-20 which develops a nominal thrust of 186.36 kN with a specific impulse of 442 seconds in vacuum. The engine operates on gas generator cycle using LOX / LH2 propellants combination. The major subsystems of the engine are thrust chamber, gas generator, LOX […]
This month, APOM brings to you the ultraviolet view of one of the most spectacular objects in the sky, NGC 6302. Located nearly 3,800 light years away in the constellation Scorpius, NGC 6302 is a planetary nebula, whose shape is strikingly similar to the wings of a butterfly, hence aptly named as the Butterfly Nebula. This is the […]
AstroSat, India’s first space observatory class satellite dedicated to Astronomy, was launched onboard PSLV from Satish Dhawan Space Centre SHAR, Sriharikota on September 28, 2015 into a low earth orbit. After the first six months of calibration and verification phase, the observatory started observing cosmos in multi-wavelength spanning a wide range from near Ultraviolet (UV) […]
A few days after the Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) marked four years in space, another important mission by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) completed three years. Astrosat, India’s first dedicated multi-wavelength space observatory, completed three years in space on September 28. ISRO celebrated the anniversary by its ‘Picture of the month’ post on its website. […]
Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has decided to double the launching of satellites by constructing another Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle Integration Facility. Cost-effectiveness has attracted several countries including the U.S. and the U.K. to use ISRO’s launch pad at Sriharikota, according to Mr B.V.V.S.N. Prasad Rao, Scientist G and Deputy General Manager at Satish Dhawan […]
The first human spaceflight aboard a SpaceX rocket to the International Space Station (ISS) is expected to take place in June 2019, while a flight on a Boeing spacecraft is set to follow in August 2019, NASA said. It is the first crewed mission by the US since the retirement of the space shuttle in 2011. NASA astronauts currently use Russian Soyuz […]
China has released a video footage of one of its most powerful unmanned fighting jets, the Wing Loong II. It has the capability to avoid radar detection which makes it almost invisible to detect and can successfully destroy targets with laser-guided missiles. It is speculated that the Wing Loong II has been developed specifically for […]