SciShorts: SpaceX to Provide High-Speed Internet All Over the World

Following the launch of the Falcon Heavy earlier this month, SpaceX has moved on to its next venture – high-speed internet for the masses. Informally called Starlink, the project drives towards endowing the world with internet through satellites. SpaceX is to launch a Falcon 9 on Thursday, aboard which there will be two experimental satellites […]

SciShorts: JAXA launches the world’s smallest rocket

The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has surpassed frontiers in development of space technology as it launched the world’s smallest rocket on the 3rd of February. The rocket was JAXA’s SS-520, which was about 10 meters in length and about half a meter in diameter. The rocket carried a TRICOM-1R cubesat, containing radios and cameras, […]

SciShorts: India Launches its 100th Satellite

The 100th satellite for ISRO was launched on January 12, 2018. ISRO’s launching of the PSLV-C40 is an important milestone in India’s space journey. The rocket carried ISRO’s 100th satellite among the 31 satellites put into orbit. The rocket’s primary payload was the Cartosat-2, which will be used to get images to develop land and geographical […]