Departing Commander of ISS Provides a Tour of ISS Labs and Research Facilities
Departing Commander of ISS Provides a Tour of ISS Labs and Research Facilities. International Space Station has been operational since November 2, 2000 with astronauts from various countries manning it for 2 decades. In her final days as Commander of the International Space Station, Sunita Williams of NASA recorded an extensive tour of the orbital […]
SpaceX Launches its First Manned Space Flight Making it Also the First Manned Launch from American Soil after the Space Shuttle Program
SpaceX launched astronauts for the first time ever today, making history and opening a new age of commercial spaceflight. A shiny white Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from historic Pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center here today (May 30) at 3:22 p.m. EDT (1922 GMT), carrying SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule into orbit. The launch kicked off […]
Effect of Varying Ramp Angle and Leading-Edge Bluntness on the Behavior of Ramp Induced Shock Wave over Triple Ramped Cone Flare Configuration at Hypersonic Speed
Abstract: Numerical simulation results are presented to show the effect of ramp angle variations and leading-edge bluntness on the flow around triple ramped cone flare in hypersonic flow. This study investigates the changes associated with shock wave boundary layer interaction due to ramp induced flow breakdown and the fluctuation in flow in the presence of […]
Experimental Analysis of Low Earth Orbit Satellites due to Atmospheric Perturbations
A satellite is expected to move in the orbit until its life is over. This would have been true if the earth was a true sphere and gravity was the only force acting on the satellite. However, a satellite is deviated from its normal path due to several forces. This deviation is termed as orbital […]
Arianespace is Set to Start its Satellite Launches Soon
Arianespace has announced that the launch campaigns at the Guiana Space Center will resume soon. This comes after a month-long suspension of all launch campaigns that began on March 16th. Beginning May 11th, the launch campaigns for the VV16/SSMS and the VA253 will resume. The launch campaigns were halted due to the COVID-19 pandemic on […]
NASA and Virgin Galactic Team Up for Hypersonic Commercial Flight
NASA and Virgin Galactic team up for a deal that aims to help the US develop “high-Mach vehicles for potential civil applications.” Virgin Galactic and NASA will work together to help get superfast air travel off the ground. NASA has signed a Space Act Agreement with Virgin Galactic and its manufacturing subsidiary, The Spaceship Company, […]
Aviation Outlook and the COVID19 Pandemic
Due to the aviation industry, the world has become a smaller place and it has become possible for any entrepreneur in India or anywhere else in the world to conduct business with any other country and sell his/her products or services. Moreover, families and friends have become closer to each other with distances becoming meaningless […]
What are Starlink Satellites of SpaceX by Elon Musk
Starlink is the name of a satellite network that the private spaceflight company SpaceX is developing to provide low-cost internet to remote locations. While SpaceX eventually hopes to have as many as 12,000 satellites in this so-called megaconstellation, the size and scale of the project have flustered astronomers and amateur skywatchers, who fear that the bright, orbiting objects will […]
Virgin Orbit Successfully Completes Test Flight Before its First Launch
The runway is now clear for Virgin Orbit’s first-ever launch. Virgin Orbit is a dedicated launch service for satellites with a mission to launch satellites into space in great numbers at low cost. On Sunday (April 12), the company completed the final test of its development program, sending its carrier plane, Cosmic Girl, aloft over the […]
NASA sets May 27 launch date for SpaceX for Launch of American Astronauts from American Soil for First Time since 2011
NASA announced April 17 that it has set a May 27 launch date for a SpaceX commercial crew test flight that will be the first mission to launch NASA astronauts to orbit from the United States in nearly a decade. NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine announced the launch date in a tweet, saying that NASA “will […]