What is rocket fuel, exactly? Rocket fuel isn’t one substance. It’s part of a propellant system: a fuel plus an oxidizer. A car engine pulls oxygen straight from the air. Rockets can’t do that. They fly through the vacuum of space, so they have to carry their own oxygen supply….
On July 18, 2026, a Hyderabad-based startup did something no private company in India had ever done before: it put a rocket into orbit. Skyroot Aerospace’s Vikram-1 lifted off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, carrying two small satellites and eight years of engineering work behind it. If…
Watching a Falcon 9 launch on a livestream is one thing. Understanding what’s actually happening at each stage of the countdown is another. You’ve heard the commentator rattle off “MECO,” “Max Q,” “engine chill.” This guide breaks down the whole Falcon 9 launch sequence in plain language, from propellant loading…