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Indian Space

Start-ups

Agnikul Cosmos Opens India's
first private rocket engine factory
Dhruva Space Satellite orbital in Chennai

deployer Space-qualifies Homegrown space startup, Agnikul Cosmos,
Hyderabad-based start-up Dhruva the country’s first private factory dedicated to
th
Space's Satellite Orbital Deployer has building rocket engines in Chennai on 13 July
been successfully tested and 2022, inaugurated by N Chandrasekaran,
space-qualified, the company said hours chairman, Tata Sons, and S Somanath,
after the payload was launched onboard chairman of ISRO and secretary, department
the last stage (PS4) of the Polar Satellite of space. The company said that the facility
Launch Vehicle (PSLV) mission will use additive manufacturing technology to
PSLV-C53-ISRO launched on 30thJune build 3D printed rocket engines, and will be
2022. used to produce engines for its own rockets.

Space Facts

1. Venus is the hottest planet in the
solar system has an average sur-
face temperature of around 450
degree celsius.
2. Space is Completely Silent Sound
waves need a medium to travel
through. Since there is no atmos-
phere in the vacuum of space, the
realm between stars will always be
eerily silent.

3. The king of planets - Jupiter.
4. Venus is the planet that rotates
clockwise.
5. Clock Speed - The operating speed
of a computer or its microproces-
sor, expressed in cycles per sec- Pluto, Cosmology, Asteroid, Supernova, Moon, Wave-
ond (megahertz) length, Neptune, Hydrogen, Universe, Mars, Jupiter, Ex-
plosion, Blackhole, Array, Mercury, Venus, Solar Sys-
-Aarthy Shree.N (II Yr M.Sc.Physics) tem, Earth, Rocks, Orion, Stars, Meteor, Sun, Galaxy

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