Aerospace engineering Current Affairs, GK & News

ISRO launches EMISAT and 28 customer satellites by PSLV-C45

On April 1, ISRO has successfully launched India’s latest EMISAT defence satellite from the Sriharikota spaceport. In today’s mission, the rocket PSLV-C45 flew in a new configuration called “QL”. In this configuration, the rocket is fitted with four longer versions of strap-on motors that provide the vehicle the required additional thrust. Earlier, the rocket used ..

Topics: Aerospace engineering • EMISAT • Indian Space Research Organisation • Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle • PSLV-C4 • PSLV-C44 • PSLV-C45 • RISAT-2BR1 • Spacecraft • Spaceflight

Russia tests a new hypersonic nuclear weapon delivery system ‘Avangard’

Russia has successfully tested a new hypersonic nuclear weapon delivery system , named “Avangard”, from the Dombarovskiy missile base in the southern Ural Mountains. It successfully hit a practice target on the Kura shooting range on Kamchatka, 6,000 kilometers (3,700 miles) away. The Avangard hypersonic glide vehicle flies 27 times faster than the speed of ..

Topics: Aerodynamics • Aerospace engineering • Aircraft • Airspeed • Avangard • Aviation • Boost-glide • Hypersonic aircraft • Hypersonic speed • Intercontinental ballistic missile • Outer space • Space weapons

India’s first private Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) factory opened in Hyderabad

India’s first private sector unit for manufacturing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) has recently opened at Adani Aerospace Park near Shamshabad in Hyderabad. The 50,000-sq ft state-of-the-art facility facility is built by the Adani Group and Israel-based Elbit Systems. It will start operations with the manufacturing of complete carbon composite aero-structures for the Hermes 900 UAV, ..

Topics: Adani Group • Aerospace engineering • Aerospace industry in the United Kingdom • Aircraft • Aviation • Elbit Hermes 450 • Elbit Hermes 900 • Elbit Systems • Twin-boom aircraft

India’s first-ever test flight powered by biojet fuel successfully conducted

Budget passenger carrier SpiceJet has successfully conducted India’s first-ever test flight powered by biojet fuel between Dehradun and Delhi on August 27, 2018. The 43 minute flight was operated by the airline’s Bombardier Q-400 aircraft with total 25 on onboard, including crew. The flight was powered with a blend of 75% Air Turbine Fuel (ATF) ..

Topics: Aerospace engineering • Aircraft • Aviation biofuel • Aviation fuels • Biofuels • De Havilland Canada Dash 8 • Fuels • Jet fuel • Liquid fuels • Petroleum products • SpiceJet

PSLV versus GSLV

PSLV PSLV is designed mainly to deliver the ―earth-observation or ―remote-sensing‖ satellites with lift-off mass of up to about 1750 Kg to Sun-Synchronous circular polar orbits of 600-900 Km altitude. PSLV is also used to launch the satellites of lower lift-off mass of up to about 1400 Kg to the elliptical Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit (GTO). ..

Topics: Aerospace engineering • Astrodynamics • Earth orbits • Geocentric orbit • Geostationary Transfer Orbit • Geosynchronous orbit • Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle • Indian Space Research Organisation • Outer space • Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle • Satish Dhawan Space Centre • Spaceflight

United States X-51A vehicle crashes in test flight

X-51A built by U.S. which was designed to travel from London to New York (around 5570 km) in 45 minutes crashed into the Pacific Ocean in its test flight. The test was conducted off the coast of California at Mach 6 speed– (up to 7,300 kmph) which means six times the speed of sound. What is ..

Month: Current Affairs - August, 2012

Topics: Aerodynamics • Aerospace engineering • Aircraft • Airspeed • Aviation • Boeing X-51 Waverider • Hypersonic aircraft • Hypersonic speed • Mach number • NASA X-43 • Spacecraft propulsion • Vehicles