Saturday, April 2, 2011

Touching the stars

Space researches have taken a giant leap from what it was few decades back. We see today many manned missions to space, many new type of researches going through in space. Actually space technology is something tremendous, it’s like hearing the comic stories but really hats off to the people who made it practically possible. The installation of international space station has helped in many ways for the space research. One of the interesting parts of space technology is launching the satellite from earth to the right orbit using rocket. First the rocket needs to overcome the gravitational force so it has to be launched at the speed of 11.2km per second. Then it’s required to send the rocket in a correct path, after reaching the required altitude the rocket the satellite alone has to be made relieved from the rocket and be injected in the right orbit. It looks like simple description over here but actually the job is very tedious. Many projects have failed at these stages it; extreme care should be taken at every stage in order to make it a successful mission. The job doesn’t gets over here after launching the satellite must be kept in track in order obtain information from it. Usually a satellite is used for only some year, after the required mission sending the satellite is completed they are sent to orbits called as graveyard orbits. After this stage satellite loses the control of the ground station. With the increasing amount of development in space technology surely a day will come, where we will touch the stars.