🚨 Bengaluru-based Flying Wedge Defence & Aerospace (@Flying_Wedge_) has successfully completed 100 hours of test flying with their Kaala Bhairav Lite.
- TRL 10
- 85% indigenous
- Range: 1,200 km
- Fully autonomous
- Tested in 30 knot gusts
- 7-8 m/s climb performance
B.H.E.E.M. — Bharatiya Habitable Expandable Extraterrestrial Habitat.
When we returned from our training in Russia, we began the Indian leg of our astronaut training. This involved learning the systems of the launch vehicle and orbital module, along with extensive physical and spaceflight training.
But there was another, rather different, dimension to our training—academic research.
We were encouraged to pick a subject related to future space exploration, deepen our understanding of it, and, hopefully, contribute something that could be useful for India’s future space programmes.
I decided to look beyond the spacecraft we were training to fly in and think about where humans might live after we land.
My area of research was extraterrestrial habitats—the technologies and concepts that could eventually allow humans to live and work beyond Earth.
That work eventually resulted in B.H.E.E.M at the Aloke lab in @iiscbangalore.
There are enormous challenges to solve before humans can establish a sustained presence on the Moon, Mars, or other extraterrestrial destinations. From radiation and extreme temperatures to life support, energy, construction and the simple question of where do we live?
And that is precisely why we need to start thinking about it today.
If we want humans to live beyond Earth 20 years from now, the work cannot begin 20 years from now. It has to begin today.
The first step towards building a habitat on another world may not be laying its first brick.
It may simply be daring to imagine what that habitat could look like.
Details here ⬇️
https://t.co/WvXnw4g69n
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