Archive for the 'Aerospace' Category

QSST Successor to Concorde Supersonic Aircraft

Concorde the world’s only supersonic passenger aircraft was decommissioned from service in 2003, after that till now we don’t have a successor to Concorde. The main reason for decommissioning Concorde was that it was causing lot of noise due to sonic boom. Supersonic Aerospace International (SAI) is set to introduce a 12 seater passenger aircraft […]

August 28th, 2006 | Posted in Aerospace, Technology | No Comments

How The Discovery Space Shuttle Returns To Earth

I found an article in BBC’s News regarding the re-entry procedures followed by space shuttles like Discovery. This article explains the various steps involved in returning to earth graphically. Have a look at it I am sure all of you would like that.
News Update:
BBC World reports that the Discovery space shuttle has touched down earth […]

July 17th, 2006 | Posted in Aerospace, Science, Space, Technology | 1 Comment

Scramjet Test Conducted in Australia….

A scramjet test was conducted in Australia by University of Queensland. It seems the test was successful even though they are still analyzing the data collected from the test flight. So before we go in details of the launch news lets get to know what a scramjet is? I am sure everybody is wondering or […]

March 26th, 2006 | Posted in Aerospace, Science | 8 Comments