Floor it!
NASA’s Psyche spacecraft has fired up its thrusters and is accelerating to the metal-rich asteroid of the same name. Learn more about Psyche’s solar-powered propulsion system, which uses electromagnetic fields to steadily deliver thrust: https://t.co/MifXRy1npL
India must know the importance of the visionary leaders backed by government in order to be a DEVELOPED NATION.
You can't just blame Government for being Capitalist and be a retard.
Whether it's US or China, development happens because of Capitalism.
At 27, he is attempting what almost no aerospace company outside SpaceX has dared: a fully reusable, medium-lift rocket that competes directly with the Falcon 9. From India.
His name is Manu J. Nair (@Manu_J_Nair). In 2022, NASA's Project PoSSUM trained and certified him as one of only 12 scientist-astronauts in the world. That same year, he co-founded EtherealX. The qualified astronaut decided his mission was not to ride a rocket, but to build a better one.
EtherealX was born from a dinner conversation, when Manu sat down with co-founders Shubhayu Sardar, a former ISRO scientist, and Prashant Sharma, an aerospace engineer, and asked one question: "Why is access to space still a luxury?" That question became the company.
Their rocket is called Razor Crest Mk-1. Seventy-one metres tall, designed to carry up to 8 tonnes to low Earth orbit in fully reusable configuration, at a target cost of $500 to $1,000 per kilogram. SpaceX charges approximately $2,700. First launch is targeted for early 2027.
In three and a half years, the team has manufactured two rocket engines from scratch, established Base 001: India's largest private rocket engine test facility, acquired 16 acres of land in Tamil Nadu for launch operations, and signed $130 million in launch contracts from six customers before a single rocket has flown.
The Series A of $20.5 million was led by TDK Ventures, the investment arm of Japan's TDK Corporation, alongside Accel. Total funding has crossed $28 million.
"What we have today is not market dominance," Manu said. "It is market dependence. That is not how we envision the future of space."
His father served in the Indian Air Force.
His son is building the rocket that will go beyond it.
@theguildworld
A Dual Thrust Chamber 80kN engine, that will be breathed into life by our own Full-flow Segregated Cooling Cycle (FSCC). Historic. Pegasus, you beauty.
FSCC? 28.08.2026
@KantInEastt So that Meta can establish their Reel, shortly after Tiktok was banned.
It was banned for the benifit of Meta, not the public.
Watching this, Google announced their YT shorts. As meta and Google are banned in China, the largest complled audience is Indian.
EVEREST — India’s first full-flow staged combustion (FFSC) rocket engine.
80-tonne class. Fully integrated. Designed and manufactured in Bengaluru, India.
T-minus eight days until the launch window begins for our Robotic Servicing of Geosynchronous Satellites payload. 🛰️
Two highly nimble robotic arms made by the @USNRL will travel to geosynchronous orbit via the @northropgrumman Mission Robotic Vehicle.
📸 Northrop Grumman
@e9mbd@bhaktSenapati Wrong comment under wrong page. They want some "pseudo scientific" explanation of how the actual scientific discoveries are related to their religion.
@padhi_phil@worlds_affairs Telegram is not the cause of paper leaks. Corrupt ministry is. As Durov said, the paper leak will just happen from another platform.
Porn and drugs are still available in almost tier 1,2, or 3 cities. But would not control that. Banning telegram is not the solution 🙃